Zondervan has announced the appointment of Internet entrepreneur Joseph Park as president of BibleGateway.com--the most popular Web site for reading and researching the Bible, acquired by the Grand Rapids, Mich., publisher from Gospel Communications in October 2008.
While most publishers are scaling back their presence at next month's International Christian Retail Show, two companies are using the event to launch major initiatives.
The Christian retail channel in Nigeria continues to be negatively impacted by e-mail scams that have targeted U.S. evangelical bookstores in recent years, according to a leading member of the industry in the African country.
There is little change at the top of the book and Bible best-sellers charts from the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), this month.
Capitalizing on the popularity of the humorous Chuck Norris cyberspace facts such as "Chuck Norris doesn't need a weapon; He is one," Tyndale House Publishers will release the famous martial artist's response in book form in November.
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