Books Jesus on the Kindle
posted by on July 14 at 11:00 AM
It’s time for the 21st century’s currently-most-popular ebook reader to go backward a couple thousand years:
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that Christian book publishers Augsburg Fortress, Crossway Books & Bibles, David C. Cook, Gospel Light, Group Publishing, NavPress, Strang Communications, Thomas Nelson, Tyndale, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Zondervan have committed to making the majority of their catalogs of books available to Kindle owners by the end of 2008. Anywhere they happen to be, and in less than 60 seconds, Kindle customers will be able to download and start reading favorite Christian titles such as “Boundaries,” “Walking With God,” and “When the Game Is Over.”
Tyndale does the atrocious Left Behind series, the first of which is one of the most hateful books I’ve ever read. Amazon is doing it wrong: everybody knows that the first application of a new technology is porn. Christianity comes way later.
Ah "Left Behind"...I got through about 60% of the first book before I had to toss it.
ever notice that christian books end up in second hand book stores a LOT?
I've never read them, but I guess I was right to be creeped out when I found out that one of the graphic designers here at work is listening to them on CD?
That list of publishers mixes Evangelical with mainline houses: the mainline ones, like the Lutheran and Dutch reformed one, tend to put out dry tomes on dogma that Protestants of that type like.
Christians print and buy and read so many books. Illiterate is one thing they're not.
I can personally attest through painstaking experience that Penthouse Letters to the Editor books are available on the Kindle...
Having read/edited three of those "books" I can also safely say that all those "letters" are written by the same person, who I'm guessing to be, judging by the writing style, to be a 68 year old, Jewish writer living in the Bronx pretending to be a busty, slutty 28 year old blonde, white woman dissatisfied with her husband's "pink, picnic sausage" and determinded to encounter a little jungle love with the black mechanic living next door...
What's the difference between a book and a piece of propaganda?
Augsburg Fortress is a good publisher, heavy in academic works. I had to read a lot of their books in college; I'd be happy to have had their books on a Kindle. I don't know about the rest of these publishers Amazon has on tap.
Hm. Books.. kindle.. christians.. what does that make me think of? It's right on the tip of my tongue...
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