5.6 Did L. Ron Hubbard make a lot of money out of Scientology?
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5.6 Did L. Ron Hubbard make a lot of money out of Scientology?
No. He received no royalties from the fees paid to
Scientology organizations for training and processing. In
fact, L. Ron Hubbard forgave Scientology churches a
thirteen-million-dollar debt in 1966 when he retired as
Executive Director.
He made his money from the royalties on his books. One
book alone, _Dianetics_, has sold *millions* of copies,
and his total book sales of both fiction and nonfiction are
in excess of one hundred million copies around the world,
including more than twenty national best-sellers in the
1980s. In fact, Mr. Hubbard's books still sell by the
millions each year and the royalties from the sale of
these books and his life's fortune were willed to the
Church to help ensure the future application of his
technology to the betterment of mankind.
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