Galaxy Press is a trade name set up to publish and promote the fiction works
of
L. Ron Hubbard, and the anthologies of the L. Ron Hubbard
Writers of the Future contest.
The company was separated from
Bridge Publications
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in the early 2000s, and is a business name of
Author Services Inc. which is, in turn, completely owned by the
Church of Spiritual Technology. Bridge now focuses solely on Hubbard's
Scientology and nonfiction works.
They published ''The Kingslayer'' as an audio-book in 2003 as well as ''L. Ron Hubbard Master Story-Teller'', a
coffee-table book by William J. Widder.
In 2004 they published a new edition of ''
To the Stars'' as well as in audio-book form.
In 2008, they announced they would be releasing eighty volumes containing the works Hubbard wrote for
pulp magazine
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s, at the rate of four titles every four or five months. The release is scheduled to be accompanied by a $1.9 million marketing campaign, including commercials on such programs popular with middle school children as ''
Transformers'' and ''
SpongeBob SquarePants''. John Goodwin, the president of Galaxy Press, stated that the sale and marketing of the books is not intended to recruit people into the
Church of Scientology
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. The profits from the books will go toward marketing future fiction books and to
Applied Scholastics, a nonprofit organization that promotes Hubbard's ideas regarding education.
References
External links
Official website
Book publishing companies based in California
L. Ron Hubbard
Scientology organizations
Publishing companies established in 2002
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