November 22, 2021 Edition
Industry News
Zondervan Academic and University of Aberdeen launch Scottish Dogmatics Conference
Zondervan Academic has announced a partnership with the University of Aberdeen to sponsor a biennial theology conference in Scotland—the Scottish Dogmatics Conference (SDC). The inaugural conference will be held in Aberdeen, Scotland in May/June 2023.
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Christian journalists worldwide to gather for second Crisis Publishing Initiative conference
What does publishing in crisis look like? Ask Gökhan Talas and his wife, who publish the only Christian magazine in Turkey, the country in which three of their publishing colleagues were tortured and killed in 2007.
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Mountain Brook Fire announces new Managing Editor
Less than two years after publisher Mountain Brook Ink launched the imprint dedicated to Christian and clean speculative fiction, Mountain Brook Fire will be expanding under the guidance of new managing editor Alyssa Roat.
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Milestones
“Gentle and Lowly” reaches 500,000 units in sales with Crossway
Crossway is pleased to announce that “Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers” (Crossway, April 2020) has achieved 500,000 units in sales across all formats—print, electronic, and audio.
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IVP Creative Director honored with eight 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards
InterVarsity Press (IVP) is pleased to congratulate creative director, David Fassett, for his work on eight designs that were chosen for the 2021 Top Shelf Book Cover Awards by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA).
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ECPA welcomes new industry affiliate: Virtusales
The ECPA board of directors recently welcomed a new industry affiliate into ECPA: Virtusales Publishing Solutions provides the award-winning Biblio suite of software, consultancy, implementation, support and hosting — delivering easily integrated, workflow driven solutions to support publishing processes and help productivity.
Product News
Hockey Gold medalist Kendall Coyne pens book for young people with Zondervan
Olympic team captain and star for the U.S. Women’s Hockey team Kendall Coyne will release “As Fast As Her: Dream Big, Break Barriers, Achieve Success” (Zondervan) on January 18, 2022, just prior to the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Nancy Wang Yuen to host season three of “The Disrupters” Podcast, launching December 2
InterVarsity Press is pleased to announce that sociologist and pop-culture expert Nancy Wang Yuen will be the host for the third season of The Disrupters podcast. With more than two hundred thousand downloads, the next season of the weekly podcast is set to launch on December 2.
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Bible Gateway interviews Mark Mittelberg, author of “Contagious Faith”
What if all you need is to be equipped to talk to people about Jesus in ways that fit your God-given personality? Bible Gateway interviewed Mark Mittelberg about his book, “Contagious Faith: Discover Your Natural Style for Sharing Jesus with Others” (Zondervan, 2021).
Authors Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel on Jesus Calling Podcast
Dr. Dan Allender and Cathy Loerzel, founders of the Allender Center, recently joined The Jesus Calling Podcast to share how God cares about each of our stories and is there to walk us through our trauma. Their new book, “Redeeming Heartache,” is available from Zondervan.
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Pastor and author Andrew Farley on Jesus Calling Podcast
Pastor Andrew Farley recently joined The Jesus Calling Podcast to share how we can act out of the new heart that God so lovingly restores to us. Farley’s new book, “The Perfect You,” is available from Salem Books.
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Other News
INDUSTRY
- Washington Post: Gutenberg, meet Gruenewald. App builder's YouVersion puts Bible in half-billion phones
- Australian Bible Society involved with first recording of an indigenous Australian Bible with indigenous voices
- New Bible app caters to users who can’t read or struggle to read because of dyslexia or other challenges
PUBLISHING
- In New Filing, Publishers Accuse Internet Archive of ‘Stonewalling’ Discovery in Scanning Lawsuit
- Lawmakers Expand Inquiry into Library E-book Market
- American Publishers’ New Initiatives: Sustainability, Diversity
- K-12 Segment Drives Publishing Gains in September
- Print Book Sales Rose 11.7% Last Week
- Bookstore Sales Up 42.1% in August, Up 38.2% Year to Date
- Penguin Random House Authors and Creators Skew Heavily White
- At London’s FutureBook: Focus on Climate and Sustainability
- Global Printing Industry Is Forecasted to Reach $834.3 Billion in 2026
- Nearly one-quarter of podcast listeners are not interested in books
- IPG to Distribute for Five New Publishers
