Industry News
ECPA to host E-Seminar on Google Book Search Copyright Settlement
On November 21, ECPA will host an informational 90-minute E-Seminar on the recent Google Book Search Copyright Settlement so that every participating publisher may learn how this landmark settlement affects them and their authors and informs the decisions they need to make in the days ahead. Recently called “the biggest book deal in U.S. publishing history,” the October 28 Google Settlement ended three years of litigation initiated by the Authors Guild and AAP in response to Google’s Library Project. Every rightsholder will need to evaluate how this highly-negotiated settlement agreement affects them and determine whether to participate or opt out of the Google program in the 120-day timeframe. The E-Seminar will be led by Brian Flagler, attorney with the Flagler Law Group and counsel for the ECPA Publishers Legal Hotline. Participants need only a phone and internet access to participate in this session held from 11 am to 12:30 pm (EST). For more information or to register online visit ECPA's website at www.ecpa.org.
Staff Changes
IBS-STL Global Appoints Doug Lockhart President/CEO, North America; Scott Bolinder as President, Global Publishing; Steve Johnson as VP Communication and New Media
IBS-STL Global is pleased to announce that Doug Lockhart has been appointed President/CEO of its North American operations. Lockhart will replace David Passman, who will retire at the beginning of 2009. Lockhart joins IBS-STL on January 1, 2009 following one year as Vice President of Communications and External Affairs for the Hope Network, a Grand Rapids based Christian human services organization. Lockhart previously served on the leadership team at Zondervan, the world’s largest Christian publisher, for five years, most recently as President and CEO.
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Milestones
ECPA congratulates authors and publishers listed in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2008
Jesus for President, Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw (Zondervan)
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Andy Crouch (IVP)
O2: Breathing New Life into Faith, Richard Dahlstrom (Harvest House)
The Twenty-Piece Shuffle: Why the Poor and Rich Need Each Other, Greg Paul (David C. Cook)
The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, Phyllis Tickle (Baker Books)
The Shape of Mercy, Susan Meissner (WaterBrook)
90 Minutes in Heaven by Don Piper has been named on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books List Top 150 books of the last 15 years
Dr. Kevin Leman's Have a New Kid by Friday has been named to the Best 100 books of 2008 on Amazon.com. The book appeared on the Customers' Bestsellers list. The list is ranked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2008 are eligible.
Fireproof novel hits bestseller lists, flies off shelves nationwide
Now in its ninth printing in just over ten weeks on-sale, more than 90,000 copies of the Fireproof novelization have shipped, placing the book on the New York Times Bestseller list for five consecutive weeks, and helping it climb ECPA and CBA bestseller lists. Buzz surrounding the story has meant groundbreaking success for the novelization of Fireproof, written by Thomas Nelson Fiction author Eric Wilson, based on the screenplay by the Kendrick brothers. Thomas Nelson and Wilson have published novelizations of all three of Alex and Stephen Kendrick’s films, including Facing the Giants and Flywheel.
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Zonderkidz Celebrates 100,000 Copies of Faith-Based Berenstain Bears® Books Sold in First Six Weeks Zonderkidz™, the children’s division of Zondervan, is celebrating rapid sales of new Berenstain Bears® Living Lights™ books with a focus on faith. The first four titles by Michael Berenstain- The Berenstain Bears® and the Golden Rule, The Berenstain Bears® Go to Sunday School, The Berenstain Bears® Say Their Prayers, and The Berenstain Bears®-God Loves You!, have together sold more than 100,000 copies since releasing on Sept. 30, 2008. The four Living Lights™ titles have appeared on The Association for Christian Retail (CBA) Top 25 Kids Books list every week since their release date, with rankings increasing each week.
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Forthcoming novel by Fox News Correspondent Wiehl named Book-of-the-Month Club selection
Months in advance of its April 7, 2009 street date, Face of Betrayal—the debut of a thrilling new mystery series by Fox News Correspondent Lis Wiehl with veteran mystery author April Henry—has been named a not-to-be-missed new favorite. Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC) Editor-in-Chief Deborah Sinclaire chose the book as a Featured Selection of BOMC, Doubleday, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild and Crossings. Combined, catalogs for these premier book clubs will reach over one million households promoting the blockbuster title leading up to the April 7th street date.
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Culture Making Named One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of the Year
Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling by Andy Crouch InterVarsity Press, $20.00, August 2008) has been named one of the Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the bible of the publishing industry. Books in contention for the best books list are those that received one of the magazine’s coveted starred reviews, indicating a book of outstanding quality. “Religion and spirituality books pour into PW's office, so it takes a lot to rise to the top of the stacks,” says Marcia Z. Nelson, PW’s Religion Reviews Editor. “Crouch wrote well about a big topic to earn this distinction.”
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Abingdon Press Title Wins Moonbeam Award
The View From Under the Pew (May 2008), by Diane Winters Johnson (author) and Margaret Freed (illustrator) was selected as a 2008 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award on October 29, 2008. This Abingdon Press title was awarded the silver medal in the nonfiction picture book category.
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Warner Press storybook Pete and Pillar: The Big Rain by Jeffery Stoddard receives 2008 Moonbeam Children’s Book Award
Warner Press is pleased to announce that its children’s storybook Pete & Pillar: The Big Rain by Jeffery Stoddard, was awarded a 2008 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Silver Medal in the category of Picture Book – 4-8 Year Old.
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Media Announcements
Stephen Baldwin will appear on the Mike and Juliet show and on to promote his first novel The Death and Life of Gabriel Phillips (FaithWords 11/01/08) on November 24th.
One Month, 6,000 Verses and 33 Cities Down the Road: Zondervan’s Bible Across America Tour Gains National Media Attention, Turns Heads
One month since launching from Grand Rapids, Mich., the Bible Across America (BAA) tour is still on a roll, literally. Over the past month, the Bible Across America team, comprised of a young twenty-something married couple, has traveled more than 7,000 miles to 33 cities in 22 states to host writing events at churches, retail stores, community events, conventions, colleges, on a busy street corner in the heart of Midtown Manhattan and at a NASCAR race in Charlotte, NC. To date, the BAA team has gathered more than 6,000 handwritten verses from people from all ages and walks of life. In addition to capturing the local community’s attention at each stop, the Bible Across America campaign has captured the attention of media across the country. USA Today, CNN, TIME Magazine and the Associated Press are just some of the national media outlets that have covered the tour, in addition to hundreds of local newspapers, television and radio stations across the country.
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Publisher Launches Antidote to "Why Believe in God?" Ad Campaign
B&H Publishing Group may have the perfect answer to The American Humanist Association’s new holiday ad campaign. While a bevy of Washington, D. C. buses are out in force suggesting “Why Believe in God? Just Be Good for Goodness Sake,” Doug Powell, author of the QuickSource Guide to Christian Apologetics, has launched the “Selfless Defense” campaign.
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Product News
Nation’s Best-Selling Study Bible Goes Digital:
ESV Study Bible Widely Available via Personal, Portable Devices
After just four weeks on store shelves, the ESV Study Bible has sold more than 140,000 copies, immediately becoming the best-selling study Bible in the marketplace today. Now Crossway is pleased to announce the forthcoming release of the ESV Study Bible on a wide spectrum of digital platforms, including Mac, PC, Windows Mobile, Palm, iPhone, Blackberry, Google Android, and Symbian. To achieve the widest possible digital distribution, Crossway has partnered with the leading digital software providers, including Accordance, Biblesoft, Laridian, Olive Tree, and WORDsearch, to make the ESV Study Bible available with all of its notes, articles, and features.
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Oasis Audio Joins Fireproof Success: Audiobook to Arrive in Stores by New Year
Since its release on September 26, Fireproof starring Kirk Cameron has taken in more than $26 million at the box office and surprised Hollywood with its success. Its companion book, The Love Dare, hit the top of the New York Times bestseller list and has one million books in print. And Fireproof the novel, by Eric Wilson also made its way onto the Times list and will be available as an audiobook in January 2009 from Oasis Audio (unabridged, $25.99, 6 CDs).
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Two New Specialty Bibles Help Medical Professionals Refocus on Spiritual
With sales to date of its specialty Bibles cresting 500,000 units to date, B&H Publishing will release both a doctor’s and nurse’s Bible in January. With a market that includes 2.5 million RNs and 884,000 physicians*, those in the medical profession are at particular risk for spiritual discouragement and fatigue in a healthcare industry that has grown increasingly secular and profit-driven.
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IVP Revisits The Shack
From book clubs to blogs, from churches to coffee houses, for many months now the talk has focused on one book, William P. Young´s The Shack. Praised by some as a wonderful representation of God´s truth, vilified by others as heretical and subversive, this publishing phenomenon has in all cases inspired its readers to ask or reconsider several weighty theological issues: How does God deal with evil in the world? How can we forgive those who have seriously wronged us? Is Young´s representation of the Trinity accurate, and what difference does belief in a "three personed" God make to us? InterVarsity Press offers a detailed explanation of these and other questions the novel raises in an upcoming book, Finding God in the Shack: Seeking Truth in a Story of Evil and Redemption by Roger E. Olson.
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Retail News
Professional Bookseller Institute Connects With Marketsquare International
A comprehensive, two-day Professional Bookseller Institute, 14-15 January, 2009, is offered in conjunction with ChristianTrade Association International’s Marketsquare International 2009 show in Atlanta, USA. Taught by Jack Scott, ChristianTrade training and member-development director, the institute is open to retailers from around the globe. The course empowers retailers with vital skills in critical retail disciplines.
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