Sony Pictures has acquired screen rights to Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent. The book was published by Thomas Nelson and has climbed the NYT Bestseller list since last November.
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The Christian Small Publishers Association (CSPA) has announced the winning titles for the 2011 Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award. The Christian Small Publisher Book of the Year Award honors books produced by small publishers each year for outstanding contribution to Christian life. Book lovers and retailers selling Christian products voted on the nominated titles in each of eight categories.
The winners in each of the eight categories are:
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CBA, the Association for Christian Retail, is supporting proposed federal legislation that would require Internet-only businesses to collect and remit sales or use taxes to the states where purchasers reside. Currently, sales tax is only payable when buyer and seller reside in the same state.
The change in the law supported by the CBA appears to run counter to the U.S. Constitution and Supreme Court decisions.
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NASHVILLE,TN– A respected team of executives with a well established record in the Christian book industry has launched Worthy Publishing, a division of Nashville-based Worthy Media, Inc., according to a news release issued by the company.
Byron Williamson, CEO and publisher, affirms “Worthy’s vision to partner with remarkable authors, investing our resources, creativity, and passion into their compelling ideas.” Williamson served as president of Word Publishing, the Thomas Nelson/Word Publishing Group, and founded Integrity Publishers.
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Will the venerable Oxford English Dictionary (OED) become a thing of the past? No, but it is likely to become incorporeal.
A spokesperson for Oxford University Press told the Oxford Times, in response to a story in the Telegraph contending the next edition of the OED will be all-digital, that “No decision has yet been made on the format of the third edition. It’s likely to be more than a decade before the full edition is published and a decision on format will be taken at that point. Lexicographers are currently preparing the third edition of the OED, which is 28 per cent complete. No final completion date is yet confirmed.”
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