| Volume 4, April 2010 He is Risen, Indeed! This past weekend Christians around the world celebrated the death and resurrection of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The words of Christ on the cross, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me...It is finished," and the words of the angel at the tomb, "He is not here, for He is risen as He said," mark the two most pivotal moments in the Christian faith and in the history of the world. But as followers of Christ, we are not to bask in the afterglow of the resurrection, but rather, we are to follow Christ's command to spread the Gospel to the ends of the earth. At St. Paul Press, that is what our mission is: to spread the Gospel via books and other literature by any means necessary. Thank you for uniting with us to accomplish this task. Expanded E-Book Availability  As
you probably have heard by now, Apple Inc.'s much hyped tablet, the iPad, was released on
Saturday, April 3, 2010. One of the capabilities of this innovative
device is its ability to read e-books via the iBooks
application. Over the past year, e-books have grown into a
major literary market and will only continue to grow in the coming
months. According to the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF),
in January 2010 alone, the reported U.S. wholesale ebook sales for
January 2010 were $31.9 million, a 261 percent increase from the
same month a year earlier.As you may already know, St. Paul Press has made all of its titles available on two major e-book readers--the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader. Throughout this month, St. Paul Press will be working to make its books available as e-books in the iBookstore so that Apple iPad users can purchase and easily download your book. All St. Paul Press books are already available on the iPad via the Amazon Kindle App. Along with the iPad, St. Paul Press will be working to make its titles available on the Barnes and Noble Nook. Because e-books cost much less to produce and distribute than print books, e-bookstores and e-book retailers pay authors and publishers a much higher royalty rate than print bookstores and print book retailers. In our May 2010 newsletter, we will have more details on e-book royalties for authors once we have the e-book distribution finalized. St. Paul Press believes that e-books are the future of publishing, and we are working hard to make sure that your book is ready for this growing new industry.  Coming Soon from St. Paul Press Growing in the Character of Christ by Rev. Edmund Sackey-Brown  Find Out More about Rev. Edmund Sackey-Brown and his ministry at www.houseofsolution.org. Hearing From God When Writing Your Book Pat McGuffin What a massive endeavor -
to consider writing a Christian book to assist God's people in moving
forward in their lives. Although excited with the prospect of writing
and publishing your book, at the same time you feel overwhelmed with
the task before you in representing God's heart through the written
word. Everything inside you reminds you that you are a needy
person...needy to connect with God. You may have no trouble talking to
God, but how are you at listening? The real issue is hearing from God
in prayer.
Click Here to Read More >>> Christian Books Do Not Fly Off the Shelves, Someone Has to Push Them Donald L. Hughes I once spoke with a woman
who had written a Christian book and I asked her what plans she had to
promote it. She said, "I don't intend to promote it, that's the
publisher's responsibility." Wrong answer. There used to be a time when
publishers promoted books, now about all they do is issue catalogs and
put them in the hands of overworked traveling bookstore reps. Once upon
a time publishers had big publicity departments which set up author
tours, book signings and radio and television interviews.
Click Here to Read More >>> Ebooks - An Emerging Christian Book Market Jacyee Aniagolu-Johnson In recent years, the
ebook publishing market, which has literally exploded in the secular
world, is also rapidly becoming an emerging Christian book market.
While recent trend of ebook sales may have seen intermittent decline at
specific quarters within the past years, ebook sales have also during
other quarters reported dramatic increases (1) and experts are still
optimistic that ebooks are the future direction; that is in the long
run. Some analysts have suggested that any decline of ebook sales seen
this year may be attributed to the flooding of the ebook secular market
with many low quality materials; this is pretty obvious and one does
not need to be an expert to observe this.
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