Dr. Robert Moon had by then become secretary of the Pennsylvania Home Teaching Society and it was he who began, in 1905, to publish the Moon Magazine, a monthly publication which has continued without interruption ever since. Miss Adelaide Moon took charge of the work in England and negotiated with the National Institute for the Blind in the hope that the Moon Society would become, as it eventually did, a branch of that Institute. The interest of readers has always been in the forefront of Moon Society policy. During the last twenty years 319 titles have been published - 1,888 volumes of biography, essays and belles letters, fiction, history, poetry, drama, travel and adventure, science and religious works. Many of the classics have been published in unabridged editions and retold as short stories.
Abbreviated editions are popular because they take up less space.
A weekly newspaper is nearing its 25th anniversary, three monthly magazines, one of short stories, one of topical articles and one devotional, a quarterly magazine for the deaf-blind, knitting patterns, playing cards, calendars and other important items also flow from the Moon Press, and the entire output is sold to the blind and to libraries for the blind at a quarter of the production cost, the balance being met by public gifts. Before 1848 there have been isolated cases of blind men and women who with courage and brains and initiative have overcome their affliction and led useful lives, but the blind community as a whole had always been poor and helpless. Today, through the work of pioneers like Dr. Moon, there is scarcely a walk in life in which the blind are not succeeding.