From "Kindling the Fires of Faith" (sub required for full piece), an article in the August 23rd edition of National Catholic Register:
The faith is well represented on
Kindle, with a developing selection of older classics as well as items from
major Catholic publishers. Ignatius Press has approximately 50 books available
for Kindle, with numerous titles by Pope Benedict XVI. Said Ignatius founder
Jesuit Father Joseph Fessio, “We intend to have all our new titles available
not only in Kindle format, but in a more generic e-book format so that readers
can download Ignatius books electronically from Amazon (for the Kindle),
MobiPocket (for computers and personal digital assistants), and from our own
website. We are in the process of converting our backlist into electronic
format also.”
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For now, e-books aren’t replacing
paper books — but they can supplement them. As Father Fessio noted about his
own Ignatius Press, “We prefer books in the traditional print medium,
especially the kinds of books we ordinarily publish — books that have lasting
value and the beauty of whose outward form reflects, incarnates the nobility of
the content. For those whose idea of a cozy living room is not a wall of
bookshelves with one Kindle in the corner, or who like to touch real paper and
see real ink when they relax to read, we intend to continue to publish ‘real
books.’
“However, as the appearance and
convenience of electronic books more closely approximate that of printed books,
and as more readers will have grown up text messaging rather than talking to
their friends, there will be — and there has been already — an increasing
number of people who, for a variety of reasons, prefer the electronic format.
We want to make what we publish available to them.”
Here is a partial list, on Insight Scoop, of the Ignatius Press books now available (or available soon) in electronic format. And here is a listing on Ignatius.com. I especially, and with complete objectivity, recommend this title.
Carl,
Do you know why you all decided to go with the .prc format for your ebooks? I was under the impression that the ePub format was considered more standard (at least, as standard as any of them can be at this point).
Posted by: Eric Sammons | Monday, August 17, 2009 at 01:53 PM
.prc format can be used across a wide range of devices, including the Kindle. That's why it was picked.
Posted by: Mark Brumley | Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 08:10 PM