The New York Times to Launch eBook Best-seller Lists

Book Publishing News

Tracking the Best-sellers The iconic best-seller lists in the New York Times are about to get a new addition!

Top 20 Worst Nativity Sets

Mark Oestricher Blog

What Were They Thinking? Marshmallows? S’mores? Seriously? Check out the worst of the worst and wonder with us, "What were they thinking?"

Chile Miner Update

Campus Crusade for Christ International

Of Prayer, Food, and MP3s The faith of one of the Chilean miners helped keep everyone’s hopes up. On day 16, the food was gone. He prayed that God would multiply as he did the loaves and fish. Guess what happened on day 17?

Sarah Palin Coins “Word of the Year”

Yahoo! News

The Top Word of 2010 And imagine that. An apparent mistake becomes a new word. The New Oxford American Dictionary declared "refudiate" the top word in 2010—a verb that Palin apparently invented. I certainly won’t attempt to refudiate that.

King James Bible—400th Anniversary Edition

Oxford University Press

Happy Birthday, KJV! With the 400th anniversary of the King James Version upon us in 2011, Oxford has recreated the 1611 version—errors and all. For those of us who make it our business to deliver error-free Bibles, this is a fascinating glimpse into the past.

Why the Book Business May Soon Be the Most Digital of All Media Industries

PaidContent.org

The Coming Tsunami "Not only do publishers need to take digital seriously—they must make it the new default for publishing, preparing for a day in which physical book publishing is an adjunct activity that supports the digital publishing business." The stats bear it out. Change is coming. We would do well to be ready.