1517 Media
Publication types | Books, magazines, sheet music |
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Imprints | Augsburg Fortress, Fortress Press, Broadleaf Books, Beaming Books, Sparkhouse |
Official website | www |
1517 Media, formerly Augsburg Fortress Press, is the official publishing house of the
History
Augsburg Fortress was formed in 1988 when the Fortress Press of
Augsburg Publishing House was affiliated with the ALC. It had been founded in 1891 at
Augsburg, and Wartburg before it, had published the old ALC denominational magazine The Lutheran Standard, which had ancestry back to the 1840s in the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio.
Fortress Press was the publishing arm of the LCA, headquartered in northwest
The LCA came into existence in 1962 with the merger of several smaller
Fortress published The Lutheran, the monthly magazine of the LCA and also of the earlier United Lutheran Church in America. The magazine had its beginnings in 1831 in publications of the
In July 2016, the Augsburg Fortress re-branded as 1517 Media. It continues to use Augsburg Fortress as an imprint for church resources and Fortress Press as an imprint for academic and reference titles. Other imprints include Beaming Books, Broadleaf Books, and Sparkhouse.
See also
- Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod's official publishing house
- Northwestern Publishing House, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod's official publishing house
References
- ^ "Trade Sales". Broadleaf Books. Archived from the original on November 28, 2021. Retrieved October 26, 2022.
- ^ "Distribution: NBN Picks Up Augsburg Fortress". Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "International Orders" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on July 20, 2017. Retrieved February 10, 2018.
- ^ "Beth Lewis Elected to Lead Augsburg Fortress Publishers". Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. August 20, 2002. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ "Company History". Augsburg Fortress. January 1, 1970. Archived from the original on May 14, 2014. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
- ^ Scandinavian Review, Volume 9, American-Scandinavian Foundation., 1921, Page 145
- ^ Michael L. Sherer. "When a Lutheran isn't a Lutheran". Metro Lutheran. Archived from the original on August 31, 2012. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
- ^ "The Henkel Press". Virginia Historical Society. Archived from the original on May 23, 2013. Retrieved January 28, 2013.
External links
- 1517 Media official site
- Augsburg Fortress official site
- Beaming Books official site
- Broadleaf Books official site
- Fortress Press official site
- Living Lutheran official magazine of the ELCA
- Sparkhouse official site