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Ebooks and tree books

 
Carl Laferton | 29 Jan 2011

For the first time, Amazon sold more e-books than paperback books in the US in the last three months of 2010, it has announced.

This is probably something of a milestone in the reading world’s journey from looking at pages to looking at Kindles, iPads and so on. And while the US is ahead of the UK in this trend, it’s likely that (as with everything else) Britain will follow their lead.

We’ve just started to produce ebook versions of some of our products (you can get the Christianity Explored paperback as an ebook) — but we’d love to know a couple of things from you:

  • Roughly what proportion of your church have devices that can read ebooks?
  • What would you most like to see released as ebooks: daily Bible reading notes (like Explore and Engage), small group notes (like Good Book Guides), or books (like If you could ask God one question)?

Do stick answers, and any comments/opinions/advice on the whole brave new world of ebookism below!

Carl Laferton

Carl is Editorial Director at The Good Book Company and is a member of Grace Church Worcester Park, London. He is the best-selling author of The Garden, the Curtain and the Cross and God's Big Promises Bible Storybook, and also serves as series editor of the God's Word for You series. Before joining TGBC, he worked as a journalist and then as a teacher, and pastored a congregation in Hull. Carl is married to Lizzie, and they have two children. He studied history at Oxford University.