Concordia Publishing House’s 100th E-Book: The Lutheran Study Bible
I’m pleased to announce that The Lutheran Study Bible is now avaialble as an e-book in Amazon Kindle format, it is our 100th E-Book title and we are just getting started. The price for the Kindle edition of TLSB is under $20. It provides you the complete text of the English Standard Version of the Bible, as well as all the study footnotes in TLSB. Check it out on Amazon’s Kindle site!
Remember: You can read Kindle files on: the Kindle e-reader itself, any iPhone, or Mac or PC desktop or laptop or notebook, and the Apple iPad, and the Blackberry. Why? Amazon has released Kindle software in all these formats, for these platforms. You don’t have to have an actual Kindle to read Amazon Kindle e-books.
Besides being our 100th E-Book title, it is also the first, and only, Lutheran study Bible available via this format, in any language, from any publisher, anywhere. Yes, I’m proud. Forgive me, but…hey, it is exciting.
TLSB is also available now in Mobipocket format, and soon in e-Pub (DRM protected). TLSB will also be available in Apple iBookstore, we hope, by the end of May. The LOGOS version of TLSB will be available by the end of April, if not sooner.
Here’s a screenshot of the Kindle version of The Lutheran Study Bible, on my Mac desktop.
Good news.
Any idea why the Mobipocket version costs over $30, when the Kindle is under $20?
Hey, a new reason to buy a Kindle over an iPad. You guys over at CPH are making my life easier every day. Keep up the great work! Also, I am looking ahead to the release of Law and Gospel: How to Read and Apply the Bible. Super excited!
Actually, Kyle, Amazon’s Kindle app is available in native iPad format. And, we will be coming out with an iPad specific version in Apple’s iBookstore soon as well.
I see your point @ptmccain, but I sill believe that the screen on the Kindle is a much better fit for reading. Don’t get me wrong, I love Apple. I am typing this on a Macbook right now.
@Kyle: It’s not so much the readability, as the functionality. I find the Kindle itself very hard to use for a book like this, but e-books in Kindle apps use the interface of the device. So, the Kindle e-reader requires you to use the little joy stick thing, but the Apple iPhone/iTouch/iPad use touch technology and computers, mice. That’s why Kindle books are easier to use on things other than the Kindle e-reader
I’m guessing that Kindle format is easier to develop/create than iBooks, at least that’s what I’m telling myself is the reason my the Kindle version came out first. ;^)
The Kindle version looks good on the iPad, but I’m thinking that the iBooks version will look even better. And it’s a safe bet that I’ll spring for it, too, unless it comes out at the same time as the Logos version — the Logos version would/will probably trump them all!
Nice work & thanks!
Glen, until a few months ago, nobody knew what Apple’s iPad standards were; whereas, the Kindle has been around for a while. No more to it than that. As I’ve already told you via Twitter, CPH is simply waiting for Apple to set in motion the next “batch” of publishers, as they call them. CPH is among them and we expect to start having CPH resources in iBookstore in late Spring.
I am delighted and excited about this. I can read KINDLE-ings on my computer. I can do LOGOS. I guess I have a month until my birthday to decide which “flavor” I want!
Can the hymnal be far behind? (I hope!) Those of us who cannot hold books are waiting with bated breath!
It’s great to finally have a computer version of this magnificent study bible. I have the kindle version on my iPad and it’s easy to read the text and to click navigate to footnotes and then click back to the main text.
Anyone who might struggle with the small size of the footnotes in the bound version of the book will be delighted that footnotes display at the same size as the main body of the text in the Kindle version on the iPad.
I also own the standard sized leather bound version and I must say it’s easier to read footnotes on the computer or ipad than on the paper text.
When it comes to graphics, I understand that the size of the actual Kindle appliances must require some restraint on the allowable size of graphics used in illustrations in this version. I find that on the iPad the ability to stretch the charts and photos to the size of the full iPad screen does not materially improve the readability of the exceeding tiny print included in the graphics. 5 inches seems to be the maximum size of the original maps or graphic tables with 4 inches more common. When blown up to iPad dimensions, the text is readable but extremely tiny in most instances on the maps, but the type size on many of the charts is just barely readable for someone with really good close vision and occasionally unreadable. There is no extra resolution in the image files that can be utilized by stretching the screen size with the iPad.
I’m just curious whether the iBooks version that is forthcoming is going to include larger more readable graphics tailored to the larger iPad screen size?
It’s great to have the book available right now for the iPad, but it would be REALLY REALLY GREAT if the graphics of the images and charts were tailored to the resolution of the iPad.
Hi Jim,
Glad you are enjoying the digital version of TLSB.
At this point in time, we do not have plans for higher resolutions of the images. Sorry about that. Perhaps on down the road, but for now this was the best we could offer.
Suppose I buy this and put it on my iPhone. Next year I decide to get an iPad. Can I move this or *any* CPH electronic book from device to device without having to pay for it again?
If you buy the Kindle version, you can have it installed on all devices you own that can read Kindle files.
If you buy the LOGOS version, you can read that on any computer you own, or on an iPhone, or any other device for which LOGOS releases an application.
Is the Logos version available as a download or only as a CD?
The LOGOS edition is available only as a CD, from CPH.