Kindle the Flame

October 9, 7:50 PMChristian Literature ExaminerHollee J. Chadwick

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Amazon.com Inc. announced in July that 11 Christian publishers will make a majority of their catalogs of books available for use on the Kindle, Amazon’s e-reader. Book Business Magazine reported in their July 25, 2008 issue that Augsburg Fortress, Crossway Books & Bibles, David C. Cook, Gospel Light, Group Publishing, NavPress, Strang Communications, Thomas Nelson, Tyndale House Publishers, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. and Zondervan have committed to making many of their titles available to Kindle users by the end of the year.

“Of the 135,000 books available on Amazon.com as a physical book and on the Kindle, Kindle books already account for over 12 percent of units sold,” says Ian Freed, vice president of Amazon Kindle. “We’re pleased that so many publishers are seeing this success with their Kindle titles, and that more publishers like the Christian book publishers are getting on board.”
 

Your Christian Literature Examiner is vastly fond of the printed word and loves nothing more than holding a book in one hand, and a cup of coffee in the other, curling up on the sofa and reading the day away, however, she does see the writing on the wall, or on the electronic device, as it were. Anything that helps get you out from in front of the television and reading is just fine in my book.

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