Knox Bible please!
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5. Are you considering selling your titles as ebooks?
We are currently carefully evaluating ways in which to provide our books in eBook format. However, with two columns layout, such as our Daily Missal or Roman Breviary, it is not technically possible at the moment. If you would like to be informed when our titles are released in ebook format, please follow us on Facebook or Twitter or subscribe to our Mailing List.
Something tells me Faithlife has the ability to get around that limitation....
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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I know someone who lovingly calls the Knox translation the "Revised Wodehouse Version". I hope we can add it to Verbum.
Now I have a mental image of the Bible being narrated by Bernie Wooster 😉
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I received this reply this morning.
Dear Mr. Ring,
As we stated last year, we currently have no plans to make any of our titles available in ebook format, and we have no plans to license our exclusive titles to Faithlife.
Kind regards,
Carlos Palad
Baronius Press
They seem totally opposed to licensing their publications even though Faithlife is able to publish with the formatting they desire.
Best wishes,
DR
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Disappointing.
Interestingly, Baronius Press appear to have provided or allowed the provision of the Knox Bible text online here;
http://catholicbible.online/knox?bible_part_no=1&book_no=1&chapter_no=1Kevin Mark
Adult Faith Formation & RCIA Coordinator, St Mary of the Angels Parish, Geelong VIC, Australia
Catholic Prison Chaplain, Geelong VIC, Australia
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Welcome to the forums. Please note that a link must have a " " [space] after it to be live. And thanks for the link.Kevin Mark said:Disappointing.
Interestingly, Baronius Press appear to have provided or allowed the provision of the Knox Bible text online here;
http://catholicbible.online/knox?bible_part_no=1&book_no=1&chapter_no=1""Catholic Prison Chaplain, "" also thanks for serving in that capacity
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Kevin Mark said:
Interestingly, Baronius Press appear to have provided or allowed the provision of the Knox Bible text online here;
http://catholicbible.online/knox?bible_part_no=1&book_no=1&chapter_no=1Good link. Knox is interesting; you almost have to have the Vulgate sitting next to it, to see where Knox is coming from:
http://catholicbible.online/side_by_side?bible_part_no=1&book_no=1&chapter_no=1
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I think they're not steering us in the correct direction.
The people who actually own the rights to publish would be the Archdiocese of Westminster, I've tried to email them without response.
1950, 2012 Archdiocese of Westminster I admire their physical books, they're beautiful but I don't like their obfuscation, and I think they're being nasty in doing it when all they would have to do is say the Copyright is held by the Archdiocese.
It could be that the Archdiocese in 2012 assigned them complete rights, and the catholicbible.online site acquired rights prior to that time. However the Internet Archive only has archives of them since March 6, 2016.
Also note that Templegate Publishers is publishing Knox's New Testament. https://www.templegate.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=143&osCsid=bv6u5g4jsqeaf1h6at69qjl863
Has Faithlife/Logos/Verbum approached the Archdiocese directly? As I mentioned, I've contacted the person in charge of media publications for the archdiocese but I have never received a reply.
DR
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David J. Ring, Jr. said:
It could be that the Archdiocese in 2012 assigned them complete rights, and the catholicbible.online site acquired rights prior to that time.
Nope. Scroll down to the bottom of the home page of the CatholicBible.online site.
David J. Ring, Jr. said:Also note that Templegate Publishers is publishing Knox's New Testament. https://www.templegate.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=143&osCsid=bv6u5g4jsqeaf1h6at69qjl863
Published in 1997.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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You should have just posted what it said - it says this. 2016 © CatholicBible.online, Baronius Press So Baronius Press published it. But that still doesn't close the knot, the copyright holder is the Archdiocese.
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No news to report on this, alas. I'm reading Waugh's biography of Knox right now and do wish we could have his translation in the software.
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Don,
Did you see my note as to the real holder of the Copyright on this, Archdiocese of Westminster holds the copyright, but they assigned it - either fully or partially to Baronius Press in 2009, I think it would be wise to contact the Archdiocese of Westminster as even when Baronius Press is lamenting that they cannot publish eBooks of their texts with multiple columns, and Fairhlife has been doing this for years, they just won't budge. I've even proposed a licensing solution where each person wanting a Faithlife book show that they've purchased a Knox Bible from Baronius, but they will not back down. They seem not to understand that often electronic publications and paper publications have different uses. I have paper copies of my favorite Bibles and I enjoy reading them but for study, nothing beats Verbum/Logos/Faithlife software books.
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