Prabhupāda: First business, how to get our books. (indistinct) For Russia export from India will be favorable. So government paper we are printing seven, eight rupees price. Make that addition, all the books. Ask them to take paper from the government, huge quantity, and all these books should be published immediately, 5,000 books.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: 5,000 copies each.
Prabhupāda: Yes, if possible, minimum 1,000.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Last time we were speaking, I was mentioning to you that in Russia they are particularly inclined towards an exchange program of books, where we give our books and they will give some useless books.
Prabhupāda: (indistinct), why should we do this?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: You mentioned last time you will throw them away.
Prabhupāda: For us there is no readable books in the whole world.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No.
Prabhupāda: We cannot waste our time.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, of course. But is there any, I mean, of course we would like to...
Prabhupāda: But only some of the authorized books, just to take their parts(indistinct) and to refute, otherwise, we haven't got to take lesson from anyone.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No.
Prabhupāda: This is a fact. All rascal speculators, what value they have got?
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Supposing there are many thousands of libraries in Russia and they are agreeable to placing say one of our books of each book in each of the libraries, but they are not willing to purchase all these books, but they are willing to give us some books in exchange, will we make this sacrifice? Because it will represent a loss of money?
Prabhupāda: No, if you can arrange for selling those (books) at any cost.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can arrange to sell our books to them at any cost?
Prabhupāda: No, no, exchange.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We can sell, there is some set resale value. Then we can realize some money.
Prabhupāda: Yes, then it is alright.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: They'll have value. There will be some money. We can request them to send some samples of the books that they will return to us. Then we can...
Prabhupāda: Find out cost. Some shopkeepers, stores. Some return. If we can get our cost price of the books.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We should get cost price.
Prabhupāda: Not should, but must as far as possible.
Guru-kṛpā: I've heard that in Russia the people are so eager to read imported literature that any literature appears they immediately buy it.
Prabhupāda: Yes.