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March 21, 2022 Edition

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Industry News

ECPA releases bestseller lists for March

ECPA has released 15 Christian book and Bible bestseller lists for March, including five Spanish lists.  The new release “Find Your People” by Jennie Allen (WaterBrook) debuts at #2 and Francine Rivers dominates the top 5 in the Fiction list.

View March bestseller lists at ReadGoodBooks.com

Publishers to share successes with colleagues at ECPA Leadership Summit

The ECPA Leadership Summit, held May 3-4 in Philadelphia, will gather industry executives and managers around several topics related to elevating publishing’s role in this cultural moment with thought leaders and industry insiders sharing on topics from charitable discourse and global discipleship to soft leadership skills and the supply chain.

In addition, for the first time, the program will feature breakout sessions led by publishers talking about successful ventures in growing multiethnicity in your publishing house (led by Helen Lee at IVP); how to find and serve niche markets (led by Ben Amundgaard and Jesse Myers at Faithlife); and elevating church engagement (led by Bill Craig at LifeWay).  Management teams in attendance are encouraged to attend all three and share the strategies with one another.  This is an in-person event only.

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Milestones

She Reads Truth™ Bible sets new sales record at over 500,000 units sold

Holman Bibles announces that the She Reads Truth Bible has topped 500,000 units sold, making it Holman’s highest-selling CSB Bible to date. The Bible released in 2017 in partnership with She Reads Truth™, an online Bible reading community connecting more than one million women via its website, mobile app and social media platforms. The She Reads Truth Bible, one of the first Bibles published in the Christian Standard Bible® (CSB) translation, was awarded an ECPA Gold Milestone Sales Award in 2021.

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Six IVP titles named Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards finalists

InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that six titles have been recognized as finalists in the adult non-fiction categories in the annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. They are: “When Thoughts and Prayers Aren’t Enough” by Taylor Schumann; “The Journey Toward Wholeness” by Suzanne Stabile; “Prayer In The Night” by Tish Harrison Warren; “We The Fallen People” by Robert Tracy McKenzie; “Reading The Times” by Jeffrey Bilbro; and “The Soul of Desire” by Curt Thompson.

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Five Kregel titles named 2021 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards finalists

Kregel Publications is pleased to announce that five titles have been recognized as finalists in the 24th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards: “Views from the Spectrum” by Ron Sandison; “The Unlikely Yarn of the Dragon Lady” by Sharon J. Mondragón; “Dusk's Darkest Shores” by Carolyn Miller; “Husband Auditions” by Angela Ruth Strong; and “Roots of Wood and Stone” by Amanda Wen.

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Media Announcements

Bible Gateway interviews William D. Mounce, author of “Why I Trust the Bible”

Why should anyone believe what the Bible says? Is it historically reliable? Does the Bible conflict with science? Did Jesus actually live? Bible Gateway interviewed William D. Mounce (@billmounce) about his book, “Why I Trust the Bible: Answers to Real Questions and Doubts People Have about the Bible” (Zondervan, 2021).

Read this interview.

Other News

INDUSTRY

  • EMF, parent company of K-LOVE Books, announces Todd Woods as chief legal officer
  • CT President: We fell short in protecting our employees and how we can do better in responding to sexual harassment
  • Herald Press pulls Bruxy Cavey books
  • PW Last Call: Forthcoming adult non-fiction religion titles by BIPOC authors
  • ECPA member Skot Welch featured on “Where Ya From” podcast on how he sees God at work coaching teams around DEI

PUBLISHING

  • Book Manufacturers' Institute survey finds print capacity for hardcover and softcover books running at more than 80%
  • Hachette Book Group Plans Return to Offices Starting in Late April
  • NPD: Print unit sales fell 8.3% last week, due to Dr. Seuss book craze last year
  • Census Bureau: Bookstore Sales Up 11.5% in January
  • ABA: Booksellers need to be ready to be different
  • Hachette UK ethnicity and gender pay gaps decrease but diversity in publishing roles ‘low’
  • London Book Fair 2022: Back to Britain
  • Bologna’s Physical and ‘Fast’ Book Fair Opens

UKRAINE

  • Ukrainian publishers turn to Polish and Lithuanian partners to print and distribute books for refugees
  • Ukraine’s Evangelical Seminaries Plead for Help
  • Philip Yancey on Ukraine: What can we learn and how can we pray? (CT)
  • Ukraine: Statements of Support from Georgian and French Publishers
  • Russia's largest trade publisher asks world to rethink boycott
  • Amazon stops sending products to Russia, cuts off Prime Video
  • Ukraine's Vivat Publishing House Fights to Survive
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