LMAO at nicolaou.
Of course, my argument could even apply the mags (not just MP3 recordings of the mags). Why not have them available for PDF download?????????????????
Obviously, the message is not *THAT* important. If it were, they would make it available for download. Imagine: Witchpower and Asleep! in PDF format.
I predict it will never, ever happen. Why not? because this is not a religion, it is a (pulp and paper) publishing company. The medium (magazines) is the message (Marshall Macluhan was correct).
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Anyone recognise this 2005 Watchtower CD on Ebay?
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sooner or later they must move towrds magazines etc being downloadable from the official internet site
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I just hope it's in English English and not that twangy pidgeon stuff from across the pond..
Careful there E-man, I speaketh that twangy pidgeon stuff! LOL
I predict it will never, ever happen. Why not? because this is not a religion, it is a (pulp and paper) publishing company. The medium (magazines) is the message (Marshall Macluhan was correct).
I agree with your prediction - the org fears the internet so greatly that they would not encourage the pubs to get anything there - technology is going to leave them in the wake. They will choke on thier own failure to use the sophisticated means of info-transfer. Then, when cost/benefit catches up with them they will be sending the flock to the 'wolves' out here in cyber-land.
I predict though that some technophile witness will find a way to get it online covertly bypassing the copywrites - then both the publishers and the 'poztates' will gain free access anyway. And a lot of dubs will stumble on the 'truth of the truth' from places like this site [and yours too].
Hooray for the good guys! Perhaps God's will is to be done after all. [Apologies to the GB members reading here]
Jeff [snickering]
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Just to be totally painfully nitpicky... that is an audio CD version of the Watchtower. There is also an MP3 version; for some reason they offer it in both formats at the present time.
I only know this because I saw a stack of these recently and noticed the two different formats, both types were current issues.
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Can I assume that the MP3 version is distributed on a CD, same as the regular, red-book audio, PCM encoded CD? Perhaps, the difference is in the number of CDs required for the distribution?