THANKS TO MELANIE CARROLL of Unicorn Tree Books, Lincoln, for her latest comment on this new initiative from Gardners: … while me & Gareth discuss the differences looked for in an online ability between b&m and online sellers, good old Gardners just gets on and does the job to reveal things with an almost perfect … Continue reading
WRITING IN THE CHURCH TIMES last Friday, 10 Sept 2010, the Rt Revd John Pritchard, Bishop of Oxford, has issued a challenge to churches to wake up to the importance of reading Christian books and supporting Christian bookshops. Acknowledging the inevitability of change with the growth of online sales, the Bishop nonetheless remains convinced that … Continue reading
TODAY, Friday 3rd September 2010, is our third Day of Prayer for the Christian book and retail trade, and there’s lots to be thankful for as well as to pray for. For details of meetings at various venues around the country, please see the facebook event page; but regardless of where you are — whether on your … Continue reading
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
Last Updated August 31, 2010 As more and more of us are connecting with our customers and one another via facebook, I figured it was about time to compile an index. If your company is on facebook but not listed here, shout out and I’ll update the list; and if you’re not there yet, why … Continue reading
Last Updated December 1, 2010 Twitter. It seems you can’t turn on the TV or radio, pick up a paper or open a magazine without someone twittering on about twitter. Even April’s Christian Marketplace, p.39; but I’m to blame for that one. So what’s it all about? What’s the point? Two words: twitter connects. Bookseller to … Continue reading
UKCBD > Christian Book Reviews > Family and Relationships > Not Under Bondage Not Under Bondage Biblical Divorce for Abuse, Adultery and Desertion Barbara Roberts ISBN 9780980355345 (0980355346) Maschil Press, 2008 £11.95 Category: Family and Relationships Reviewed by: John Wilks This review – to be published in Evangelical Quarterly, April 2009 – is reproduced here by kind permission of … Continue reading
What, exactly, do we mean by the designation ‘Christian’ when we refer to bookshops or publishers? Is it simply that we trade in products that relate to the Christian faith — are we simply a subset of other businesses and commercial enterprises? Or is there — should there be — something more distinctive than that? … Continue reading
UKCBD > Christian Book Reviews > Emerging Church & Postmodern Faith > Wake Up Dead Man Wake Up Dead Man Matt Stephens ISBN 9780955480423 (0955480426) Quick Brown Fox Publications, 2008 (130pp) £6.99 Category: Emerging Church & Postmodern Faith When is a review not a review? When, like this, it’s largely in response to someone else’s comments: I freely admit that I … Continue reading
