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- 05/20/11
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Starting the Day Off Right - Nancy Leigh DeMoss writes about personal devotions. “As Father's Day approaches, I'm reflecting on the legacy I have received from my father--some of the principles he taught and modeled that have shaped my life.”
10 Things Leadership Is Not - Earlier this week I linked to an article about things submission is not. Here is a good follow-up which lists what leadership is not.
Hell - Francis Chan just released this video in which he talks about a book he is working on that deals with the issue of hell.
Islands in the Stream - Here is a gallery of some extraordinary homemade dams holding back the Mississippi as desperate residents try to save their homes.
More Kindle Books - It’s significant when the biggest bookstore announces that they are now selling more ebooks than printed books. “Since April 1, for every 100 print books sold on Amazon, 105 Kindle eBooks have been sold…”
Jogging While Mowing - “What would you say about a pastor who jogged while he mowed his lawn? He was so committed to ministry that he wanted to spend as little time as possible on non-ministry tasks. I know such a pastor. He's an example of a pastor who works very hard in ministry. At first glance, it looks like he's redeeming the time. Is he an example for all of us?”
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Comments (6)
re: Kindle vs. Print Books
Aren’t these statistics only meaningful when there is a marked downturn in the number of physical books sold?
To me, it makes sense that they’d sell more Kindle Books at this point, but it doesn’t appear that the sales of physical books has proportionately decreased as a result…
Francis Chan really is quite a passionate brother. Love the guy, right down to the ground. Thanks for the link.Have to put this on facebook to perhaps help undo Bell’s shallow thinking, I hope.
Have a terrific Lord’s day! All for the Cross Galatins 6:14.
Right, BT, I’ve mentioned this before — lots and lots of people are buying Kindles right now, so lots and lots of people are loading them up. When Kindles/e-readers achieve a critical mass in the market, there should be a leveling off of e-book sales, and then we can get a meaningful comparison of consumer preferences.
When Kindles/e-readers achieve a critical mass in the market, there should be a leveling off of e-book sales, and then we can get a meaningful comparison of consumer preferences.
Maybe. I’m not convinced. I find it hard to believe that more Kindles would equal fewer books. Amazon will continue to find ways to make those people want to buy books…
Is there any accounting for free Kindle books? Or the $0.99 ones? I got a Kindle for Christmas and have found an abundance of free books that I do not hesitate to download that I would never buy otherwise, I’d probably get them from the library or never read them at all. Same for the ones I can get for $0.99, there is no shipping cost associated and it doesn’t seem too bad to me to have a title in my e-library for that price, even if I never read it, its not taking up space on my bookshelf and adding to clutter.
“Maybe. I’m not convinced. I find it hard to believe that more Kindles would equal fewer books. Amazon will continue to find ways to make those people want to buy books…”
That’s the opposite of what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that there’s a temporary uptick in the purchase of ebooks because people are stocking their shiny new Kindles, but I’m also joining with BT in asking whether there actually has been a dropoff in paper books.
So when the Kindles reach critical mass and the initial wave of buying and stocking them passes, then we can make a meaningful comparison. I don’t know what that answer will be, but that’s when we can find it, not now, when everybody’s still buying their first Kindle and filling it up.