MY THANKS to John Paculabo for kind permission to post his letter to retailers — which he mentioned yesterday, Friday 30th July 2010 — for download here. Some retailers will have already received it by email, others can expect to receive it by post within the next few days. As John himself explains, it’s a … Continue reading
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Simon Cozens Introduces Wide Margin Books
I met Simon Cozens via the Christian Authors, Booksellers and Publishers facebook group and he told me about his recent venture into publishing, Wide Margin Books. Intrigued, I invited him to tell us more… My wife came home from visiting friends on a Saturday afternoon, and caught me hunched over a laptop in the living … Continue reading
Thank you, Kingsway!
… and thank you, Luke, for spotting this within the last hour or so: THANK YOU KINGSWAY. Anyone who has visited the Kingswayshop.com will notice a small victory for us. Gone are the “Our Price” “RRP” and “You Save” boxes on the pages of most products. Gone are the bogus “Pre-Order” Discounts. Replaced simply with … Continue reading
Advance Notice of Formal Complaint to the Office of Fair Trading about Anti-Competitive and Unfair Trading Practices by Kingsway Communications
IN MY ORIGINAL POST this morning I drew a comparison between the £13.48 preorder offer featured in David Keen’s post The Last Instrumental Worship Album…Ever! and Kingsway’s out now offer on their The Best Instrumental Worship Album…Ever! of £12.99 compared to their RRP of £16.99. It has since been brought to my attention that the £13.48 … Continue reading
7/7: Muslim Perspectives
My thanks to Hasan Ahmed of Rabita publishing for kindly providing me with a downloadable copy (pdf, 795kb) of their flyer introducing 7/7: Muslim Perspectives, published earlier this month to coincide with the 5th anniversary of the 2005 London bombings. Whatever your view of Islam, one thing we as Christians cannot afford to do is to … Continue reading
Living Oasis Update: Edinburgh opening imminent, Summer newsletter, Online ambitions and a DVD
Update 5pm, 26/7/2010: News has emerged that negotiations for the lease on the former Wesley Owen premises in Croydon have been unsuccessful. Please continue to pray for all concerned as the search for alternative premises goes on. It’s all happening at Living Oasis, with Living Oasis Edinburgh gearing up for a grand reopening soon — … Continue reading
Reintroducing Authentic Media
Recently a friend on facebook asked if I knew what was going on with Authentic Media since the collapse of the old STL: had they survived? The answer, I’m pleased to say, is a resounding yes. I invited them to bring us up to date: Following the news of IBS-STL UK going into administration at … Continue reading
Kingsway: no meeting with John Paculabo and “an unwholesome witch hunt”?
TODAY, Wednesday 21st July 2010, is the date suggested by John Paculabo for a meeting in London at which he proposed to address the concerns of the trade over Kingsway’s pricing practices and to further enlighten us about their “aspirations and many other issues and their possible impact”: I am more than willing to address … Continue reading
Mixed response to Writers’ Workshops experiment
K B Walker, author of A Life Less Lost, has reported a mixed response to a couple of writers’ workshops — ‘Writing from Life’ — which she offered free of charge to local bookshops in the Huddersfield area last month, with seven participants turning out for the event at the Orchard Bookshop, Denby Dale, but … Continue reading
Shack Attack: and now it’s all gone wrong…
THE SHACK has now gone from multi-million copy bestseller to multi-million dollar legal-disaster-in-progress as its original author and publishers have gone from being best buddies to opponents bickering over royalties. Very sad. Full story in the LA Times, The flak over ‘The Shack’, and some helpful reflections for wannabe writers from Steve Laube of The … Continue reading
