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Distant Shores Media

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The Church in every people group, the Bible in every language.

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What if the answer was always "yes" for anyone, in any people group who wants #Bible content in their own language, without exception?

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This is amazing: ISO codes for languages, scripts, countries, and regions + translations into major languages: anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=iso-…

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We have waited years for this: the global Church now has an open-licensed #Bible in modern English, available under #creativecommons BY-SA

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The first known #copyright on the #Bible was in 1901 by Thomas Nelson & Sons, first founded to print non-copyright books. #irony

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Greater love has no organization than this, that it irrevocably open-license it's biblical content for the global Church. Do you agree?

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We could use help from someone who knows #LaTeX & can help create templates for #Bible translations + print-on-demand distantshores.org/contact

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Android: 1 billion users, 80% of global smartphone market, now targeting <$100 phones for next 5 billion: cnet.com/news/android-o… #mobmin

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If the Internet was a book it would be 1.2 billion lbs, 10,000' tall & take 57,000 years to read, if you read 24/7 cartridgesave.co.uk/news/if-you-pr…

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Net change since last year: +18 languages with Bibles, +35 with NT, +13 with portions. 4,019 to go. wycliffe.net/statistics #endbiblepoverty

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What do you think: are the goals of increasing revenue from the #Bible and increasing its availability intrinsically in conflict?

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21st century Iranian translators have to use #publicdomain Persian translation from 19th century. Why? #copyright restrictions on the #Bible

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"An organization that commits to helping society manage a problem also commits itself to the preservation of that same problem" —Clay Shirky

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A concise explanation of the church-centric #missions strategy we are collaborating on with church networks globally distantshores.org/strategic-over…