EAO: 20
November
2013
-- Don Bosco Publications (UK), whose slogan
is "Following the
example of Don Bosco, we publish good books",
launched a venture a year or two back that has proven to be a
bonanza
for 'following Don Bosco's example' - under Fr Anthony
Bailey's
intuitive guidance, they went the 'app' way, and more
precisely
'Amazon'.
Now that Amazon has sites in Australia, China and Japan, EAO
members have a number of possibilities up their sleeve.
One of those is to go to, say, the amazon.com.au
site and search on Don Bosco Publications, which will
obviously bring up the 18 items they have available through
Amazon.
If you type in 'Don Bosco' on the other hand, you will get
more than Don Bosco
Publications. Tej
Prasarini (India) are there too amongst others.
But even more interesting is to try some searches on the
Japanese and
Chinese sites (click on the Japanese example above, or on the
Don
Bosco's Early Apostolate image for the Chinese one). They seem
to turn
up resources we never realised were available! For example, Don Bosco's Early Apostolate
is a very precious item - a 'rare book', really (The original
is I Cinque Lustri,
by G. Bonetti, and is an 'alternative' history of the Oratory,
one
could say). I could not find it on the .au site, but it turned
up on
the Chinese site! It is not published by DBP. On the other
hand,
looking for the Advent
& Christmas 'Swatch', a very popular liturgical
resource, it could only be found on the general Amazon site.
All in all a search on these Amazon sites under Don Bosco
Publications
(and then Don Bosco) may offer Salesians and Salesian Family
members
some excellent reading for Christmas! And where they have been
clearly
published by a Salesian Publisher, as is the case for DBP and
TP
mentioned above, your purchases also help them.
