The sales help to support a women's center in Darfur.
He says such sales help to pay the bills for a way of life in which the profit margin is very small.
They say the sales helped tip the country into turmoil.
Hospital Corporation said the sales would help pay off $1.3 billion in debt due within two years.
But, the company's growing online sales helped sustain the company.
The sales, which yielded $54 million, helped close a state budget gap.
Relatively strong sales of both titles helped to produce a record profit in 2007.
The sales, the company said, will help it focus its businesses.
The sales have helped clear almost all of the company's short-term and long-term debt.
Those sales also have helped the government trim its budget deficits.