http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/2010/03/20/this-weeks-bestsellers-16/ A Year of Reading All of America'a Bestsellers Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:46:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/2010/03/20/this-weeks-bestsellers-16/#comment-392 Tim Challies Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:36:31 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/?p=516#comment-392 Kara - I honestly don't know. I had thought about it a little bit before the project began, but hadn't come to a conclusion. I think I'll start reading it and just keep tabs on my conscience and heart. If I find myself unable to go on because of conscience or if I find that it is doing bad things to my heart, I'll put it down. It's not worth violating conscience or committing a sin just to say I read all of the books on the list. Kara – I honestly don’t know. I had thought about it a little bit before the project began, but hadn’t come to a conclusion. I think I’ll start reading it and just keep tabs on my conscience and heart. If I find myself unable to go on because of conscience or if I find that it is doing bad things to my heart, I’ll put it down. It’s not worth violating conscience or committing a sin just to say I read all of the books on the list.

]]> http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/2010/03/20/this-weeks-bestsellers-16/#comment-391 Kara Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:28:10 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/?p=516#comment-391 Out of curiosity, what will you do if you come upon a book you really don't want to finish due to innapropriate content? For the sake of argument let's say Chelsea Handler's book - which, for the record, I've never heard of - is horribly offensive and unbiblical. Will you skim in order to review lightly? Skip it? Will you read in order to say you read them all? Will you read with a Bible in one hand and that book in the other?! What's the plan? Out of curiosity, what will you do if you come upon a book you really don’t want to finish due to innapropriate content? For the sake of argument let’s say Chelsea Handler’s book – which, for the record, I’ve never heard of – is horribly offensive and unbiblical. Will you skim in order to review lightly? Skip it? Will you read in order to say you read them all? Will you read with a Bible in one hand and that book in the other?! What’s the plan?

]]> http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/2010/03/20/this-weeks-bestsellers-16/#comment-390 Stéphane (France) Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:34:23 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/?p=516#comment-390 I think there is quite a bit more money in hardcovers… Here, in France, getting an electronic copy of new books at 10$ would be a steal. Their hardcover counterparts go for more than 25$! I think there is quite a bit more money in hardcovers… Here, in France, getting an electronic copy of new books at 10$ would be a steal. Their hardcover counterparts go for more than 25$!

]]> http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/2010/03/20/this-weeks-bestsellers-16/#comment-389 Steve D Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:20:01 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/?p=516#comment-389 I think your concern about the Chelsea Handler book is well founded. A gal at work had it at her desk. She told me it was funny and let me look at it, but after the first couple of pages, I couldn't/wouldn't read any further. Terribly inappropriate and profane. Don't envy you on this one. I think your concern about the Chelsea Handler book is well founded. A gal at work had it at her desk. She told me it was funny and let me look at it, but after the first couple of pages, I couldn’t/wouldn’t read any further. Terribly inappropriate and profane. Don’t envy you on this one.

]]> http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/2010/03/20/this-weeks-bestsellers-16/#comment-388 Jeremy W. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:54:46 +0000 http://thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/10millionwords/?p=516#comment-388 Regarding the Kindle, I wonder if Apple's upcoming iPad and their bullying around of the publishing companies has affected Amazon's ability to get the new stuff as quickly as they used to. Also I read somewhere that Apple's agreements with the publishing houses has pretty much eliminated the 9.99 price point Amazon had with publishers for their new books. Regarding the Kindle, I wonder if Apple’s upcoming iPad and their bullying around of the publishing companies has affected Amazon’s ability to get the new stuff as quickly as they used to. Also I read somewhere that Apple’s agreements with the publishing houses has pretty much eliminated the 9.99 price point Amazon had with publishers for their new books.

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