austraLasia #3317
Amazin' Amazon - and Don Bosco Publications
EAO: 20 November 2013 -- Don Bosco Publications (UK), whose slogan is "Following the example of Don Bosco, we publish good books", launched a venture a year or two back that has proven to be a bonanza for 'following Don Bosco's example' - under Fr Anthony Bailey's intuitive guidance, they went the 'app' way, and more precisely 'Amazon'.
Now that Amazon has sites in Australia, China and Japan, EAO members have a number of possibilities up their sleeve.
One of those is to go to, say, the amazon.com.au site and search on Don Bosco Publications, which will obviously bring up the 18 items they have available through Amazon.
If you type in 'Don Bosco' on the other hand, you will get more than Don Bosco Publications. Tej Prasarini (India) are there too amongst others.
But even more interesting is to try some searches on the Japanese and Chinese sites (click on the Japanese example above, or on the Don Bosco's Early Apostolate image for the Chinese one). They seem to turn up resources we never realised were available! For example, Don Bosco's Early Apostolate is a very precious item - a 'rare book', really (The original is I Cinque Lustri, by G. Bonetti, and is an 'alternative' history of the Oratory, one could say). I could not find it on the .au site, but it turned up on the Chinese site! It is not published by DBP. On the other hand, looking for the Advent & Christmas 'Swatch', a very popular liturgical resource, it could only be found on the general Amazon site.
All in all a search on these Amazon sites under Don Bosco Publications (and then Don Bosco) may offer Salesians and Salesian Family members some excellent reading for Christmas! And where they have been clearly published by a Salesian Publisher, as is the case for DBP and TP mentioned above, your purchases also help them.
Amazin' Amazon - and Don Bosco Publications
EAO: 20 November 2013 -- Don Bosco Publications (UK), whose slogan is "Following the example of Don Bosco, we publish good books", launched a venture a year or two back that has proven to be a bonanza for 'following Don Bosco's example' - under Fr Anthony Bailey's intuitive guidance, they went the 'app' way, and more precisely 'Amazon'.
Now that Amazon has sites in Australia, China and Japan, EAO members have a number of possibilities up their sleeve.
One of those is to go to, say, the amazon.com.au site and search on Don Bosco Publications, which will obviously bring up the 18 items they have available through Amazon.
If you type in 'Don Bosco' on the other hand, you will get more than Don Bosco Publications. Tej Prasarini (India) are there too amongst others.
But even more interesting is to try some searches on the Japanese and Chinese sites (click on the Japanese example above, or on the Don Bosco's Early Apostolate image for the Chinese one). They seem to turn up resources we never realised were available! For example, Don Bosco's Early Apostolate is a very precious item - a 'rare book', really (The original is I Cinque Lustri, by G. Bonetti, and is an 'alternative' history of the Oratory, one could say). I could not find it on the .au site, but it turned up on the Chinese site! It is not published by DBP. On the other hand, looking for the Advent & Christmas 'Swatch', a very popular liturgical resource, it could only be found on the general Amazon site.
All in all a search on these Amazon sites under Don Bosco Publications (and then Don Bosco) may offer Salesians and Salesian Family members some excellent reading for Christmas! And where they have been clearly published by a Salesian Publisher, as is the case for DBP and TP mentioned above, your purchases also help them.
