Michigan company lands global distribution rights of Thomas Nelson products
Brilliance Audio, Inc., has signed an agreement for the exclusive global distribution rights of the hard goods products of Nashville-based Thomas Nelson and Zondervan — the two publishing groups that form HarperCollins Christian Publishing.
The three-year partnership, financial terms of which are not being disclosed, includes all front list and select back-list titles for non-fiction trade and fiction audio products in CD and MP3 CD format.
Related to the agreement, past favorites from Rick Warren, Max Lucado, Colleen Coble and Lysa TerKeurst, among others, will be included in the available backlist CD products.
Brilliance Audio is based in Grand Haven, Mich. Of note, Zondervan is based in Grand Rapids, Mich.
The announcement follows HarperCollins Christian Publishing’s April announcement that it finalized a licensing agreement with Spanish publishing house Editorial CLIE.
“With certain backlist titles being available in hard goods for the first time, this new partnership will increase our audio presence in the world’s retail and libraries markets,” Cat Zappa, director of licensing for HarperCollins Christian Publishing, said in a release.
Court rules malpractice claim related to child death must be dismissed
In a unanimous opinion released Thursday, the Tennessee Supreme Court ruled that a medical malpractice claim brought by a local couple against Williamson Medical Center must be dismissed because it was filed too late.
Read more here.
Wilson Post publisher stepping down after sale
Sam Hatcher, who launched and built Main Street Media into a holding company for suburban news and lifestyle publications, is stepping down as publisher as The Wilson Post following Main Street's sale to former Tennessean executive Dave Gould. Hatcher said he will "continue hanging around and kind of helping" with the company.
Big gift from Nobel winner's estate to MTSU
The estate of Jim Buchanan, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize in economics, on Thursday said it would give $2.5 million to the Middle Tennessee State University Honors College. Part of the bequest will go toward establishing a lecture series focused on applying Buchanan's ideas to today's economic questions.
Buchanan died in January at age 93. Read more about his estate's gift, including the possibility of MTSU partnering with George Mason University to organize Buchanan's papers, here.
Gibson wraps Japan company stake buy
Gibson Guitar has completed its tender offer for almost 55 percent of TEAC Corp., a Japanese company that makes audio and visual equipment as well as data storage equipment. TEAC will be folded into Gibson's operations but remain listed in Tokyo.
Kobalt launches royalty-tracking interactive system
Kobalt Music Group has announced it will launch an interactive system for tracking royalties. To be called the Kobalt Portal, the system includes usage data and royalties earned on user-generated YouTube content. Sarah Skates and MusicRow.com have the full story here.
Metova names lead developer
Mobile application development firm Metova has promoted Beverly Massengill to lead developer. Massengill joined Metova in January of last year as a developer. She will continue that work but also assist and mentor other developers. Before coming to Franklin-based Metova, Massengill assisted in research on graph-based anomaly detection as a computer science graduate student at Tennessee Technological University.
Energy-efficiency rebate for Bridgestone La Vergne plant
The Tennessee Valley Authority and Nashville Electric Service have cut a $350,000 check to Bridgestone Americas as a reward for the energy efficiency improvements the tire maker has made in recent years at its La Vergne plant. An improved lighting system installed in 2010 has cut power consumption by 3.8 million kilowatt-hours. The cash will go into the Bridgestone Americas Environmental and Energy Strategic Fund to be applied to other conservation projects.
We crack the Top 5 once again
Forbes ranks Nashville No. 2 on its just-released The Best Cities for Jobs 2013 list. Read here.
Bond Coffee opens in Gulch
Bond Coffee Co. has opened in The Gulch. Our SouthComm Inc. colleague Dana Kopp Franklin has the details here at the Nashville Scene.
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