Prabhupāda: So why don't you get the manuscript and let us have an Indian edition. I told Rūpānuga that the difficulty is that the enlarged edition when we are attempting to publish, MacMillan says that "We are publishing your book, why not we, we publish." If we publish, then we save our investment to publish. That has not been decided, so therefore I advised my secretary in New York that MacMillan's permission or no permission, you should immediately print. If they print it is all right, otherwise print ourself.
Dr. Kapoor: Haven't you given the copyright to them?
Prabhupāda: No, copyright is mine.
Dr. Kapoor: Oh.
Guest (5): Can you get, get it, published in India.
Prabhupāda: In India, yes. No, by publisher, especially publisher like MacMillan you save so much time and investment also. We are not for profit. We want to see the publication in the market, so in that sense we save so much trouble, but they always look after their business profit.
Dr. Kapoor: Naturally.
Prabhupāda: In the beginning also I requested them to publish the whole, but they said, "No, it will be very big, it will be costly. You reduce it to 400 pages." So that 1100 pages were reduced to 400 pages. Now when people are demanding this Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, people are coming. When our saṅkīrtana party goes in the street many gentlemen comes and demands "Have you got Bhaktivedanta's Bhagavad-gītā As It Is?"
Dr. Kapoor: Hm, yes.
Prabhupāda: Yes, they demand it. In every center it is going on very nicely. Then we have many customer requested the enlarged edition. So, so everything is ready. Now this controversy, whether MacMillan will publish or we shall publish.
Dr. Kapoor: There is no doubt that you will be saving a lot of trouble (indistinct).
Prabhupāda: And they have got good organization.
Dr. Kapoor: Good organization they have got.
Prabhupāda: All over the world.
Dr. Kapoor: They'll sell more. They'll sell more.
Prabhupāda: Actually because it was published by MacMillan Company, it has become widely circulated, people are demanding.
Dr. Kapoor: I think you should let them publish.
Prabhupāda: That I am trying, but it has not been decided, but anyway it will be published very soon.
Guru dāsa: Even if they do publish it, they will not distribute it in India.
Prabhupāda: Yes, in that sense we may publish in India.
Dr. Kapoor: You may have an agreement with them, that you have a cheaper Indian edition, which you will sell only in India, you can give them the right to sell it all over the world.
Prabhupāda: I have asked that Shishu Kumar, Shishu Kumar you know?