Kirkdale Press is a new digital publishing imprint from Logos Bible Software and they may be looking for you.
This from Kirkdale Press:
Ever wondered how fast your read?
Or how fast it would take you to read Tolstoy’s epic tome War and Peace?
Well, Staples has heard your unspoken prayer. They’ve set up a virtual eReader—with a subtle nod to the Kindle—that you can use to test your ability to speed read for content.
Yes, there will be a test over what you read!
Free ebook anyone?
Andrew Murray’s True Vine is a thirty-one day devotional focusing on Christ’s Parable of the Vine and the Branches in John 15. The devotional for each day, though short, elaborates and expounds upon John 15, providing spiritual insight along the way. Murray repeats important themes–like abiding in Christ–throughout the different days. Noticing how they develop and grow with each successive read, countless small groups and individuals have found Murray’s keen spiritual teachings fruitful. An excellent devotional, True Vine is recommended for daily spiritual nourishment.
Here are the details:
I love my Kindle, but I hate having to use that twenty foot long cord (or that ridiculous e-mail system) to manually send non-Amazon ebooks and documents to my reader. (Personally, I love using my Kindle when preaching. It’s a pain to have to plug it in every time I want to update my sermon.)
Well, we’re all one step closer to the wireless future we’ve been dreaming about. Amazon has just announced a new Mac/PC app that will send ebooks/files to your Kindle wirelessly.
Hooray!
Sorry, not yet.
But maybe soon.
The US Government sued Apple, accusing the iPad-maker of illegal pricing practices concerning its iBooks store.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t have a degree in anti-trust law, so here’s a cursory explanation of what went down:
Your Bible serves as the anchor of your life and an important symbol of your faith. Today’s Bible is more than the large, coffee table book your grandparents displayed. Available in most any language, translation and size, the Bible is even downloadable to your computer or sized to fit in your palm. Whether you listen to Scripture online or carry a favorite volume with you, give your personal Bible a facelift when you dress it up.
If you’ve ever downloaded free ebooks, you’ll often find them in an ePub format. Unfortunately, Kindle doesn’t support ePub files.
Having downloaded today’s free ebooks, I ran into that exact problem (of course a few hours later, I realized they were available straight from Amazon — doh!).
So, after a quick search on Google, I found an ebook conversion tool that’s available for Windows, OSX and Linux.
But, did it work?
A free resource from Christian Classics Ethereal Library:
Jonathan Edwards dedicated his time to the service of God, spending the majority of his life as a preacher, theologian, and missionary. Edwards’ brilliance as a theologian and scholar is undeniable in this extensive collection of his works. This volume includes the “Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd,” a biography written by Edwards about his contemporary, David Brainerd, who served as a missionary to the Native Americans. This volume also contains a wide array of Edwards’ professional works, ranging from theological discourses and biblical exegesis, to impassioned spiritual treatises and sermons. Throughout this volume, Edwards addresses several fundamental issues, including salvation, original sin, marriage, free will, hell, angels, and God’s sovereignty. Edwards’ visionary success as a pastor and his clarity as a writer shine abundantly throughout this impressive collection of his works.
Here are the download links:
For those of you that use an eReader, have you noticed a decrease in the number of real books you purchase or own?
Do you purchase more titles than before you owned an eReader?
Since we acquired an eReader, we went through all of our books, and for those that were available for the Kindle free of charge, we replaced with e-versions. We were shocked with how much bookself space we gained!
After this experience and reading Jon Manna‘s post on “Finding Joy In Books. Again.“, I had to share this!
Books, as we’ve known them, might be considered a thing of the past by most people. We are living in the digital era of iBooks and ebooks. We place emphasis on rich and interactive media, and control it all with the tip of a finger.
Lately I’m finding it surprisingly refreshing to actually turn back to the traditional books of paper and ink, and I must admit that the following video helped inspire me all the more. Continue Reading…
