Chasing Paper

Critical Reflections on Christian Books and Publishing

Stephanie L. Derrick

• Publisher: Cascade Books
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9781532677588
  9781532677595
• eBook ISBN:
  9781532677601
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Publishing
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Chasing Paper is an important new collection of essays written by senior publishers from around the world who have spent their careers in Christian publishing. Here they discuss the dramatic changes witnessed by the Christian publishing industry over the last fifty years, how they and their companies responded to those changes, and what the future may hold for the Christian publishing industry, authors, and readers everywhere. Find herein a rare glimpse behind the scenes into how some of the gate keepers of Christian culture have navigated quickly shifting cultural and professional realities.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• List of Contributors
• Mark Noll—Foreword
• Philip Yancey—Farewell to the Golden Age
• Stephanie L. Derrick—Introduction
• Mark Carpenter—The Changing Face of Publishing in Brazil
• Pieter Kwant—We Are What We Read: Critical Reflections on Christian Books and Publishing in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Peter Calvin—Christian Publishing in a Majority Muslim Country
• Wonsuk Ma—Publishing as Christian Hospitality: Experiences in Baguio and Oxford
• Ian Darke—Spanish Language Evangelical Christian Publishing in Latin America
• Fr. Giuseppe Costa—Second Lesson: The Publishing House to the Popes
• Joseph Sinasac—From the Great Depression to the Digital Age: A Canadian Catholic Publisher’s Journey
• Robin Baird-Smith—Religious Book Publishing
• C. Jeffrey Wright—Publishing African American Christians
• Peter Dwyer—Six Decades of Catholic Publishing in the United States
• Norman A. Hjelm—The Privilege and Perils of Publishing in a Pluralistic Age
• Richard Brown—Publishing as Service: The Moral Traditions Book Series and Communities of Practice
• Andrew T. Le Peau—Evangelical Academic Book Publishing: 1970–2020
• Sandra Vander Zicht—Thirty Years of Change in Christian Book Publishing
• Jon Pott—In Two Worlds
• Roy M. Carlisle—Paradigmatic Shifts in Christian Publishing: An Editorial Perspective on the Last Fifty Years (1969–2020)
• Robert Hudson—Of Octavos and Octothorpes: Old Print Tech Casts a New Spell
• Jon Stock—On the Early Days of Wipf and Stock
• Greg Thornton—Publishing God’s Glorious Deeds