austraLasia #2956
 
Don Bosco Publications goes digital

BOLTON (UK) -- "Kindle into flame your prayer life", comes the message from Fr TonyBailey sdb, director of Don Bosco Publications, based in Bolton. He also means 'Kindle', digitally speaking. Read on!


"We have recently begun producing EBook versions of our published books.
We have chosen to publish them on Amazon, using the Kindle format.
We began with David O’Malley’s well-known prayer books which have been used in some of our Salesian communities: ‘Prayers to Close the Day’ and ‘Prayers to Start the Day’. We have adapted the Kindle versions for personal use renaming them ‘Prayers to Close my Day’ and ‘Prayers to Start my Day’.
    You don’t have to own a ‘Kindle’, the Amazon EBook Reader, to read these books.
    The Kindle version of a book can be read on an IPad or Smartphone by using the free Kindle app from Amazon.
    We have priced these prayer books very cheaply to encourage young people to use them.
    All Michael Cunningham’s books are available in the Kindle version from Amazon, and David O’Malley’s Christian Leadership.
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This effort by DB Publications is of particular interest, given that a number of Salesian Publishers will be meeting next year to tackle precisely this, amongst other, issues: how do Salesian Publishers today come to grips with the rapdly-changing scene in publishing? The indications coming from every quarter are that Publishers who remain firmly entrenched in paper are unlikely to survive.