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Nothing New Press ebooks availabe now!
posted Monday, June 8, 2009 :: 4:27 PM
We have finished (we think) debugging the automated ordering system for Nothing New Press eBooks, and they are now available to order for instantaneous download. All the info is posted at the NNP site.
On the Nothing New Press website, the eBooks have all been uploaded; we are finalizing the last of the technical issues to get them available for purchase and immediate download; so we hope to have that up and running by the weekend, or early next week if we run into something. The printed books are still available for purchase, although there will be a shipping delay. We can ship books needed urgently from the 15th on, if you can give me plenty of notice so that I can arrange for it long distance. Then from the 24th on, we will be able to ship more regularly if needed, and I will be back in the office on July 1st. I will still be checking my e-mail all June when I am on vacation, so be sure to write if there are questions or problems - I will answer!
Listening to the news this afternoon of the probable passage of the so called "economic stimulus" bill, was getting me a little bit down. Because I know that pork spending and nationalizing business and health care is NOT going to stimulate the economy. :(
Then I realized, "Hey! I can do something on my own to help stimulate the economy!" So we are running an Economic Stimulus Sale over at Nothing New Press for as long as we have books in stock. Our goal is to help homeschooling families who are trying to save as much money as they can, and give them a little break in the cost of their curriculum. I wish we could do more, but the economy has been hard on us too. However, at Nothing New Press we believe in the words of Jesus: It is more blessed to give than to receive! So take advantage of the sale prices and save some money on curriculum this year! When the sale has depleted our inventory and we have to print more books, the prices will return to normal (our printer is not running an economic stimulus sale for us for the cost of our books, the more's the pity!)
Story of the Greeks has been out of print this winter while we completed a new edition. The new edition is nearly finished, and we have a wonderful printer which we have found in our new home in Sarasota - a Christian family- owned business who have been doing this for decades, and who come highly recommended. So we are very excited that as soon as we get the book file to them, they will be able to have the books back to us in a much shorter time frame than we were used to with our old printer's while we were in Colorado. If you have been waiting for the new edition of Greeks, it will not be long now!
Also, we have exciting additions planned for 2009 - stay tuned!
My husband and I moved to Florida beginning Oct 31st. My husband's family all live in Florida, and our children have been migrating there also as time has gone by, so we really wanted to live closer to our family. It was quite a journey. Our moving truck broke down in Nashville, and we were delayed for a few days for repairs, then when we arrived in Florida our residence was behind schedule and not yet ready for occupancy. But we have successfully moved the Nothing New Press office, although we are still setting up equipment and the like. Electric, phones, water, and Internet are all on and working. Everyone who ordered books while we were closed and this week, has had their books shipped, so we are right on track for taking and shipping orders.
Our new address is:
Nothing New Press
PO Box 18335
Sarasota, FL 34276
I just have to say how much I love it here! Our website and e-mail have not changed, so please do not hesitate to let us know if there is anything we can do!
We will be closed next week so that we can move our office, so if the posting is scant, that is the reason. The Nothing New Press website will not be closed, everyone can still place orders for books if they wish, and we will fill them on Monday November 10. More on our new office after next week!
I apologize for missing a post yesterday; as you can imagine, since the new edition of All Through the Ages came in on Friday, we have been working since Sunday morning to get all the preorders packaged and shipped. If you are waiting for a shipping confirmation e-mail, they are coming; we have had all hands on deck as it were to get the books out, so we will be sending the e-mails as soon as the last package has left the premises!
I admit I was tempted for a split second to work on the packaging Saturday too, but I soon discarded that idea. The Lord said, "You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest," (Exo. 34.21). A situation like this is as close as I am ever going to get to the equivalent of plowing time and harvest.
Whoo hoo! I just got a call from the trucking company which has had the new edition of All Through the Ages enroute from the printer's, and the books are being delivered TODAY!! That means we will be able to ship out everyone's preorders on Monday, July 14!!! I am so thrilled to have the books finally back in stock!!!
All Through the Ages is being shipped to us from our printer's this week. Because of the 4th holiday, I am estimating we will have the new 3rd edition back in stock by July 14, just to be on the safe side, when we will be shipping books to all those who preordered the newest edition. I have also updated the website with the latest info. The newest edition is harmonized and expanded in every area, but the Geographical section has been doubled, or tripled or quadrupled in some cases. With over 7000 books indexed by historical era, geographical region, genre, and reading level, including the latest books just out in this year's spring catalogs, it is proving to be the invaluable one-stop living books history resource!
2) Of course, all the new books recommended from all the various homeschooling catalogs we indexed up to and including this spring's latest catalogs have been included; along side their old recommendations (even though they might not be available new and in their catalogs anymore because of that, they were still excellent books, and many of them can be found in libraries or online).
3) Many smaller and independent publishers are republishing the the best of the great old books indexed by The Best Historical Novels and Tales and History of Nations recommended reading lists (sources for books indexed in All Through the Ages); a search for them on Amazon.com will bring them up available for purchase again. These have been retained in the 3rd edition of All Through the Ages. However, some of those titles were just too obscure, and unavailable to us in our day. Those titles have been removed, greatly streamlining several of the lists.
4) Corrections were made throughout all the lists where errors were found for incorrect reading levels, authors, titles, etc. and checked against several library databases as well as Amazon.com.
5) Book descriptions were greatly expanded in every list, in every level; and changed, where necessary, to make the descriptions even more accurate and helpful.
6) While every list in the Chronological section was expanded, the Geographical section was massively expanded; many of the country lists are quite complete now across all reading levels and for all book types (history, biography, historical fiction, literature, etc.). The Geographical section of the book is now nearly as extensive as the Chronological section, and should be a great help in Geography studies.
7) A few new articles and sidebars were added to aid understanding of more complex, confusing, or controversial events in history.
8) And finally, the book has been completely retypecast in a darker and easier to read (I think) font, at a larger size. More space was added between entries to increase legibility. The page design has been redone, all with an eye to increase legibility and ease of use. Yes, these changes added pages to the book, but we were committed to greatly increase the ease of use, relevancy, and legibility of All Through the Ages, even if it meant an increase in cost for us, without passing those increases on to the homeschooling community. Times are tough right now, and we have been there, trying to come up with hundreds of dollars for books while living on one income; we think homeschooling families deserve more help in tough times, not less. So not raising our prices is our little bitty way of helping out. :)
Finally, every last technical issue with the new edition of All Through the Ages has been resolved! We have a new printer much closer to home - due to the increase in paper and freight charges with our old printer - and we were trying to avoid raising the prices on our books. Even though the price on practically everything else has gone up, we wanted to continue to be a blessing to the homeschooling community and keep our prices the same.
Anyway, the complete overhaul of All Through the Ages in a new program and a new format for the new printer brought its own set of challenges, and maybe if I was more of a techie person it wouldn't have taken me so long. But, every obstacle has been surmounted, every hurdle overcome; the book is at the printer being printed, and we will be shipping in two weeks!!! Whoo hoo!!
Now if I can just figure out why my desktop computer won't connect to the Internet so I can update the Nothing New Press website ... I think I might have to back everything up, wipe the hard drive, and start from scratch. So I will be updating the website as soon as possible ... stay tuned ...
And now back to our regularly scheduled blogging ...
We are sooooo close to having All Through the Ages ready to ship! I hope to have a more exact date by the end of next week! Speaking of which, I have been sending the .pdf file of the relevant portion of All Through the Ages to those who have pre-ordered the book and are anxiously waiting for the print edition to do lesson planning. I in no way mean to crimp anyone's lesson planning for next year, so if you have pre-ordered All Through the Ages, and need to see the new American Revolution section, or Ancient Greece and Rome, or whatever it may be, please e-mail me and I will send send you the .pdf file of those sections while we are waiting for the printers!
We updated the Nothing New Press website with the newest information concerning the 3rd edition of All Through the Ages. The old edition of All Through the Ages has been out of print since the end of October, and I have been working all winter on the new edition. It is a complete revision: new layout, new books, updated and corrected timelines - everything. I am excited about this new edition, because it is so much more easily readable; there are even some new articles included in the booklists. We do not have the book back from the printer's yet, we had to modify our 3rd edition book file and that is almost done. We hope it will be very soon, and I will let you know as soon as we have a guaranteed date!
Nothing New Press will be open for just a short time tomorrow morning to ship books, then we will be closed until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Then we will be open for a few more weeks, and then closed again from December 17 through January 4, 2008. I realize that is a long closure, but this year my sweet dh and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary, and he is taking me to Florida for an anniversary vacation and a visit to his family, who all live out there. (We rarely take vacations, so this is such a treat for me.) And since all our employees are family members, and they are also going out to Florida to spend the holidays with the family, no one will be here. So, Nothing New Press will be closed. If anyone needs books for the beginning of the spring semester, be sure to order them now (while the sale is still on), so that we can ship them to you before we close at the end of business on Friday, December 14. Our next shipping day after December 14 will be Monday, January 7, 2008. Thank you, and happy Thanksgiving!
All Through the Ages is out of print until February 2008
posted Sunday, October 28, 2007 :: 9:56 AM
As of October 26, 2007, we have sold out of the revised 2nd edition of All Through the Ages. We are working on posting the exact same edition in an eBook if you need the book before it comes back in print in February. We are working out the technical details now; keep watching this space for more details!
Tomorrow, Friday, is the Feast of Trumpets sabbath, and Nothing New Press will be closed. The sabbath begins this evening at the sighting of the new moon. We shipped all orders we have received up until this morning this morning already, and any orders that come in over the Feast of Trumpets sabbath or the weekend will be shipped on Monday. Have a blessed holiday!
There are two more Feast of Tabernacles sabbaths that occur during the week, coming up, on which Nothing New Press will be closed. The first day of Tabernacles is a sabbath, and it falls on September 28th this year, since the new moon was not seen last night. Then the eighth day of Tabernacles is also a sabbath, and it falls on October 5th this year. Nothing New Press will also be closed on those days. Those days are both Fridays, and we will do just as today: every order that comes in up to Thursday morning will be shipped Thursday morning, and then every order that comes in over the feast day sabbaths and the weekends will be shipped on the next Monday.
It has been a long time since I missed a Monday post; I'm sorry. This is our busiest week of the year with shipping for Nothing New Press (thank you for making it our busiest week of the year!) and it may turn out that I might miss a few more posts this week. But I am thinking of you all and have posts in my head and heart, and I will post again as soon as possible. In the mean time, I will give you advance notice that we have completely redone the Nothing New Press website, although it is not posted yet; we are still finishing up the last details. But I am so very excited about it, it will be soon, and hope you all will enjoy it when it is finished.
This year marks Nothing New Press' 10th year, and in honor of our anniversary, we finally started advertising, LOL. We have a small ad in the summer issue of The Old Schoolhouse magazine which should be in mailboxes and stores soon.
Now, in honor of our first ever advertising, we have put all of our books on sale! Right now! I am not sure how long the sale will last (until we run out of books?) but if you still need to get books for school, take advantage of our anniversary advertising back to school sale!
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