Christianity Today announced its 2005 Book Award winners. From over 300 nominations, 23 titles were selected as books that bring understanding shape evangelical life and thought. Included in the list was The Case for a Creator: A Journalist Investigates Scientific Evidence That Points Toward God, by Lee Strobel (Zondervan) in the Apologetics/Evangelism category; The Jesus Creed: Loving God, Loving Others, by Scot McKnight (Paraclete Press) in the Christian Living category; Africa and the Bible, by Edwin M. Yamauchi (Baker Academic) in the Biblical Studies category; and Gilead: A Novel, by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) in the Fiction category. For the complete list, visit www.christianitytoday.com.
Bowker, the leading provider of bibliographic information in North America, recently released statistics on U.S. book publishing compiled from its Books In Print® database. Based on preliminary figures, Bowker is projecting that U.S. title output reached an all-time high in 2004, with 195,000 new titles and editions. The catalyst for the growth was adult fiction, which reversed a three-year plateau and increased a staggering 43.1%, to 25,184 new titles and editions, the highest total ever recorded for that category. New poetry and drama titles increased 40.5%, while new juvenile titles increased 6.6% to 21,516. Religion, travel and home economics enjoyed the largest increases in the adult non-fiction category, while education, history, science and biography suffered the steepest declines.
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