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		<title>Can You Copyright Works in the Public Domain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald L. Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Copyright law seems to have been turned on its head in the Internet Age. Of course, I’m not a lawyer and am not offering legal advice, but it is important for Christian writers to be aware of some of the issues and trends related to the topic.
The question about copyrighting something in the Public Domain [...]


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		<title>Research Shows Bible Readers Want Word-for-Word Translations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald L. Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 
Most American Bible readers prefer  word-for-word translations of the  original Greek and Hebrew over  thought-for-thought translations and  value accuracy over readability.
That  is the finding of a new  study by LifeWay Research. A total of 2,000  Bible readers participated  in the study through a demographically  representative [...]


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		<title>InterVarsityPress Embraces E-Books</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald L. Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[InterVaristyPress (IVP) has embraced e-Books in a big way. They now market 22 titles in the ePub format, 250 titles in GoogleBooks format, and over 600 titles in the Kindle format.
They also unrestricted file formats so that you can transfer titles to  your personal devices and platforms easily. This makes it possible to distribute [...]


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		<title>King James Bible Celebrates 400th Anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald L. Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The King James Version (KJV) of the Bible has now been around for 400 years.  A  New York Times editorial observed, &#8220;It&#8217;s barely possible to  overstate the  significance of this Bible. Hundreds of millions have  been sold. &#8230; To  Christians all around the world, it is still the  ancestral language [...]


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		<title>New Bowker Statistics Point to Publishing Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 14:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald L. Hughes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bowker Books in Print has just issued its preliminary estimates for the total number of books published in the U.S. in 2010. The figures show significant tends in the publishing industry, including self-publishing, in the religion field as well as other genres.
Here are some highlights of the report.


Traditional publishers issued an estimated 316,480 new titles [...]


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