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.

Out of Boston comes news with connections to two local finance players: Morgan Keegan, which recently changed hands from Regions Financial to Raymond James, has seen two senior technology investment bankers move over to Signal Hill Capital, the Baltimore firm that also runs a downtown Nashville office. The moves comes on the heels of the local Morgan Keegan operation losing veteran trust banker Howard Safer to Argent Financial Group and tech analyst Jonathan Ruykhaver to Stephens.

Performing-right organization SESAC has hooked up with InGrooves, a San Francisco company that manages content delivered to more than 500 online and mobile platforms. The push strategy turns SESAC's traditional royalty collection model on its head a bit.

“In the age of DIY (do-it-yourself), it’s more important than ever that we use [our] position to provide complementary services to our affiliated artists and writers to help them meet their professional goals. The more opportunities SESAC can create for its artists and writers to distribute their content into the marketplace, the more opportunities it will present for SESAC to monetize that content in the licensing arena.”