TAN books in financial trouble

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Thanks for those links. It looks like in the translation errors in the first link do not amount to the kind of errors that would throw someone off which is acknowledged in the second link. The second link seems to limit the theological errors to a discussion of Mary as co-redeemer. Or are there other major theological errors?

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Scott Waddell:
Thanks for those links.
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You are welcome.
It looks like in the translation errors in the first link do not amount to the kind of errors that would throw someone off which is acknowledged in the second link.
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Actually the second link says that they wouldn’t throw someone off “who knows theology.” For those without advanced training in theology (and philosophy), they would potentially throw them off.
The second link seems to limit the theological errors to a discussion of Mary as co-redeemer. Or are there other major theological errors?
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The only other one that I can think of at the moment is on the perpetual virginity of Mary. For most other things like Christology, sacramentology, the Trinity, I don’t think there are major theological errors. So for these “basics” I think it is a good text.
 
Just to clarify:

TAN books indeed was in bankruptcy several years ago and, apparently, got out of it. (Whether it ever had been in bankruptcy before that, I don’t know.)

Most of the titles TAN prints are in the public domain. That means TAN has no rights to the text but does have rights to the typesetting and cover design, plus to any supplemental text it may have written on its own.

Some years ago Catholic Answers decided to publish a title that TAN had been carrying, “Where We Got the Bible.” We thought the book could profit from new typesetting, larger pages, and the addition of the author’s autobiography, which in our edition forms a long appendix. TAN continues to publish the work as it did previously.
 
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Hmmm, they say they are a Catholic Bookstore yet they do not care the Catechism of the Catholic Church nor do they carry the Documents of Vatican II.

But they do seem to carry a lot that is critical of Vatican II.

Makes one wonder. :hmmm:
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Even better! They have the Catechsim of TRENT!
 
Scott Waddell:
I can’t believe no one has mentioned what is probably the most important book they have: Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma by Ludwid Ott. This is a must have for anyone even remotely interested in apologetics.
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Great book!!

It should be in the library of every parish.

I got mine from them about a year ago.
 
They’ve got an awful lot of competition now that I don’t think they had initially. I have a bunch of the books others have listed and also the one Karl Keating put out. How many books can one buy?? They are excellent books, nonetheless.
 
From the Founder of TAN Books — Thank you!
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Dear TAN Patron,

The purpose of this letter is to thank all of you who purchased books this week in response to our last Friday’s email letter/advertisement. As you probably recall, TAN had to file a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy (“Protection from Creditors”) on February 18, 2005. And right now we need to get caught up on current bills, try to build some cash reserve, and prepare a Payment Plan for the creditors for the pre-petition debts we owe prior to 2/18/05, and prove to the Court we are a viable company.

The return on last week’s email was some 3.2%, which may not sound too good, but it gave us 620+ website orders for this week—thru Thursday—which is 300% more than normal website sales, and is actually an excellent return on an email for us.

If you had planned to respond to last Friday’s e-mail, but have not had a chance to, you can** view the last e-mail here** (includes list of 80+ books on sale)

Because we received a larger than normal percentage of new customers among the website orders this week, we presume that many of you forwarded our e-mail on to your own contact lists. If you did, again, thank you! If you have not forwarded our last e-mail to your e-mail contacts, perhaps you would help us out by doing so. Believe me, the results of this week’s Internet activity were excellent, very gratifying, and helped us out tremendously!

Please realize that in a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, our company has to show a profit each month and demonstrate to the Court that we can shoulder the Payment Plan we present to our pre-petition creditors. Therefore, it is crucial to our survival to demonstrate month by month that we are building more and more sales. You should realize also that the potential of these great Catholic books is to cause a conversion and/or to help a person rectify his life and save his soul. Helping to distribute these life-changing, potentially soul-saving books can be a great participation in the work all we Catholics are called to do for our fellow human beings—which is expressed so admirably in St. John the Baptist’s resounding injunction: “Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight his paths,” (Matt. 3:3), which might be paraphrased, “Help him to do His work among your fellow human beings.”

Thank you again for your recent website order, if you ordered; God bless you for all your past patronage and support; please consider placing an order now if you have not ordered recently; and—if it is not too much trouble— please forward our last week’s e-mail on to your own contact list.

May God bless you for all you have done and whatever you may do.

Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,

Thomas A. Nelson
Publisher

You can view this letter as a webpage here: tanbooks.com/doct/tnelson.htm
 
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EddieArent:
Even better! They have the Catechsim of TRENT!
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I have purchased this. It’s OK as far as that goes but I don’t understand the big deal about it, the current Catechism is far better.

I don’t wish any harm to this company but they really are a third-rate publisher. As has been indicated in an earlier post most of what they publish they pay no royalties for, and the titles could be released by anyone who might feel that there is a market for them.

Whatever happens, no big gain or loss for the worldwide Catholic community.

+T+
Michael
 
Hello All,

They have a great big library, which is impressive. They carry a lot of good books, including a lot of classics. Steve Wood highly recommends A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture for Bible Study. However, they are horribly critical of Vatican II.

They publish nonesense like AA-1025 and The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita which suggest that Vatican II was a Masonic plot and that Pope John XXIII may have been “infected” by the Masons. In their books: In the Murky Waters of Vatican II, Liturgical Time Bombs in Vatican II, and Liturgical Shipwreck the Modern Liturgy is heavily criticized, if not bashed. They insist the Duay-Rhiems Bible is the only “good” bible and that we should return to the “Tridentine” Mass. It is the kind of stuff SSPXers and Sedvacantists promolgate.

Thomas A. Nelson obviously loves the Church. But as a publisher who “personally approves” all the books, why publish such inflammatory material along side such great books like True Devotion to Mary and The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ? :confused:
 
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