News

No Pre-orders for India

We are not taking pre-orders for India for two reasons. First of all, the book will be available there weeks before anywhere else in the world. Secondly, the book will already be permanently discounted 20% off to better serve the Indian population. Release dates for major areas of India will be made available as soon…

EU distribution arrangement

We are happy to share that Bhaktivedanta Library Services will be distributing Yamuna Devi’s book throughout Europe. They will also honor all pre-orders at the 20% discount if they are contacted directly. We are still working on arrangements for India and Australia presently.

Taking Pre-orders

We just started taking pre-orders, and in the first 24 hours we received at least 30 orders. This is a tremendous help financially, as we have taken out a loan to continue the printing process. Thank you to all those who helped publicize our Vyasa Puja offering of making pre-orders available. We are still trying…

The book is at the printer!

On July 25th, we sent a purchase order with a downpayment to begin printing with Replika Press in Delhi. If all goes well, the book should be available at the earliest Kartik or at the latest Yamuna Devi’s departure anniversary in December. We thank the kind anonymous donor who made this possible, as well as…

Printing negotiations

Dear devotees, We hoped to provide an update earlier, but the process of printing negotiations has been a long one. The book is entirely finished, including indexes, but we are currently still negotiating between three presses. Once we get a final quote, we will examine what funds are available and then proceed from there. Printing…

Website update

We have updated some information on the website, which you will mainly notice on the frontpage banner. For instance, there is now the Table of Contents for Volume 1 available. Also, some of the bhajan download buttons don’t currently work (any from 2008 and 2009), due to a coding error. When the book is released,…

Layout completed!

Sorry for the delay in news, but a very important phase of the book is now complete. Here is a list of what is done and what remains: Recently completed: Layout for the entire book (2 volumes) Volume 1 proofread again Volume 1 pictures cleaned Currently working on: Proofreading and correcting Volume 2 Cleaning pictures…

The draft is complete!

We have wonderful news! Despite serious health challenges, Dinatarini devi has completed the writing for the book. Since there are 700 pages of text and a few hundred pictures, the book will be published as a set of two volumes. Currently the book is in the lay out stage, and about 1/3 of the way…

Tax-exempt donations for US residents

We are full of gratitude and pleased to share that we are able to facilitate tax-exempt donations for US residents through the kind arrangement of the Vedic Community Foundation. Please see the nice page dedicated to our project at the VCF site here.                          …