eBooks from Brewers Publications

Has anyone had much luck finding eBooks from Brewers Publications, Kindle or iBooks? I would really like to get Ray Daniels’ “Designing Great Beers“ and Gordon Strong's "Brewing Better Beer". I've tried emailing and calling Brewers Publications to find out their plans for publishing a digital version of these and other books but cannot get a response. I have "Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew" by Jamil Zainasheff on Kindle and it's a terrific book in a terrific format. Does anyone have more info?

Extreme Brewing by Sam Calagione, was on itunes, not sure if its available on Kindle.

I read Brewing Up A Business. Good stuff. I'll have to check out Extreme Brewing.

Brewers Publications is converting books a little at a time for kindle and other eBook formats. The next up are How to Brew and Sacred Herbal and Healing Beers. Technical books are more complicated to produce than straight text books due to formatting requirements that you don't have in your average fiction/romance/etc. books. We are going through each text and proofing them. We are working to produce eBooks not long after the release of printed titles as we introduce them but our backlist will take a little time and is proving to be somewhat labor intensive. I'm hoping that as we move through them the process goes a little faster as we learn the limitations as well as what we need to be looking for. You can stay tuned to new releases and any eBook info by "liking" Brewers Publications on facebook or following BP on Twitter @beerbooks

I believe I've responded to everyone by email that has emailed directly. There was one phone message I've had difficulty receiving so I couldn't pull the number - maybe that was you? If so, my apologies for not having called back quickly - I'm usually pretty good about that

Kristi Switzer
Brewers Publications

Hi Kristi,

That's the info I was looking for. I apologize if I called you out online. Perhaps my spam filter grabbed your response. Please take my impatience as a sign of how much I like your books. Best of luck with the conversion.

-Joe

Great!

I already own how to brew in paperback, but would buy it on kindle sine I could have it on my iPhone then to reference at anytime.

joeg13 said:

Has anyone had much luck finding eBooks from Brewers Publications, Kindle or iBooks? I would really like to get Ray Daniels’ “Designing Great Beers“ and Gordon Strong's "Brewing Better Beer". I've tried emailing and calling Brewers Publications to find out their plans for publishing a digital version of these and other books but cannot get a response. I have "Brewing Classic Styles: 80 Winning Recipes Anyone Can Brew" by Jamil Zainasheff on Kindle and it's a terrific book in a terrific format. Does anyone have more info?

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Where did you get a Kindle version of Brewing Classic Styles? I haven't seen it anywhere as an ebook?

I noticed it wasn't in the Kindle store anymore. Maybe they pulled it back. I know they did that with How to Brew. I have gotten positive sounding emails and FB posts from Brewers Publications saying that they are coming soon, but I'm yet to see it. I assumed it was a big project for them to convert their older books because they were probably not in the right format, but I expected that all the new books would go through a modern publication process that would all allow them to be released at the same time as the paper version. I try not to flame them because I know they are working hard brining us great content, but it's disappointing that the digital versions are so slow to come.

I would never want reference books such as Designing Great Beers on my Kindle, I make way too many margin notes and flip back and forth through pages too often to make it work for me.

I love my Kindle for casual reading but that is about it.

Nightshade said:

I would never want reference books such as Designing Great Beers on my Kindle, I make way too many margin notes and flip back and forth through pages too often to make it work for me.

I love my Kindle for casual reading but that is about it.

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Same here. Wednesday is going to be fun, a stack from Brewers Publications should be delivered:

• Scotch Ale (Classic Beer Style)
• Porter (Classic Beer Style)
• Barley Wine: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style)
• Mild Ale: History, Brewing, Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style)
• Stout (Classic Beer Style Series, 10)
• Brown Ale: History, Brewing Techniques, Recipes (Classic Beer Style).