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Zondervan was founded in 1931 in Grandville, MI, a suburb of Grand Rapids, by brothers Peter ("P.J.", "Pat") and Bernard (Bernie) Zondervan, who were the nephews of publisher William B. Eerdmans. [2] [3] The company began in the Zondervans' farmhouse and originally dealt with selling remainders and publishing public domain works.
Pat and Bernie Zondervan launched Zondervan Publishing House as a company committed to spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ through publishing and eventually Christian resources and products as well. Until 1993, the chain was part of Zondervan, the Christian publishing company that owns the copyright to the New International Version of the ...
Modern Publishing; Unisystems Inc. Zondervan Publishing (Christian publishing company taken over by HarperCollins in 1988) Thomas Nelson (Christian publishing company taken over by HarperCollins in 2011) Inspirio – religious gift production; 3000 Pictures (joint venture with Sony Pictures) – film and television production company
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster. HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and London and is a subsidiary of News Corp.
Thomas Nelson is a publishing firm that began in West Bow, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1798, as the namesake of its founder. It is a subsidiary of HarperCollins, the publishing unit of News Corp. It describes itself as a "world leading publisher and provider of Christian content". [1] Its most successful title to date is Heaven Is for Real. [2]
In late 2008, Zondervan (the Evangelical Christian publisher of the NIV and TNIV Bible and a wholly owned subsidiary of HarperCollins) acquired Bible Gateway from Gospel Communications. [5] The sale of the site came after two years of continued financial difficulties on the part of the donation-driven GospelCom ministry.
Biblica, formerly International Bible Society, was founded in 1809 and is the worldwide copyright holder of the New International Version of the Bible (NIV), licensing commercial rights to Zondervan in the United States and to Hodder & Stoughton in the United Kingdom.
Stamps died in 1940, leaving the company to J. R. Baxter. After Baxter died in 1960, his widow, Clarice Howard "Ma" Baxter, ran the company until her death in 1972. [5] [6] In 1974, the company was sold to Zondervan, which became part of the Benson Company in 1986, and is now part of Universal Music Group.