Industry News

CBA and ECPA to facilitate industry task force on e-book delivery for Christian stores

CBA and ECPA are facilitating an industry task force to determine if there’s a viable cooperative solution that would enable Christian stores to deliver e-books through their Web sites to consumers. The task force was agreed to in a meeting of retailers, publishers, and POS technology vendors after the Sunday general session at ICRS, “Digital/Mortar: Store value in a digital age.”  The task force is made up of representatives from leading retailers and publishers as well as CBA and ECPA. The group goal is to assess current technologies or platforms to determine if the industry could provide enough scale to achieve a broad, mutually beneficial means of delivering e-books to personal computers and various e-reader devices. The goal is to enable brick-and-mortar retailers to sustain relationships built with their customers over the years and not force them to go to elsewhere to buy books.

NIV Bibles Top Amazon and Apple E-Book Religion Charts

Ebooks are among the fastest-growing segments in the publishing industry, and eBibles are no different.  Today Zondervan reported that its NIV Bible and Zondervan NIV Study Bible have been among the Top Five eBooks in the Religion & Spirituality Category of Apple’s iBookstore and Amazon’s Kindle Store since the beginning of 2010. [Read More]

CBA helps promote e-fairness to gubernatorial hopefuls
CBA has joined other trade associations to appeal to gubernatorial candidates in upcoming elections to champion the cause of local businesses by ensuring online-only retailers pay their fair share of local sales taxes.

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See all JULY BestSellers:

• Top 50, Fiction, Bibles, Bible Translations, Kids, Under $5 and Young Adult .
• Post the most up to date ECPA BestSellers list to your web site or blog. 
• To receive the ECPA BestSellers list each month by email, contact  mcovington@ecpa.org

Courier Sales, Income Up in Third Quarter

Courier Corporation (Nasdaq: CRRC), one of America's leading book manufacturers and specialty publishers, today announced results for the quarter ended June 26, 2010, the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year. Despite a sluggish economy and a highly competitive sales environment, Courier posted gains in revenue and net income both for the quarter and for the year to date.  [Read More]

Milestones

ACFW announces finalists for Christian Fiction’s prestigious Carol Awards

Biblica Celebrates 200th Anniversary in Bogota, Colombia

Biblica's worldwide celebration of 200 years in ministry continued last month in Bogota, Colombia, as Biblica International CEO Keith Danby and Latin America Group Vice Presidents Dr. Luciano Jaramillo and the Rev. Esteban Fernández joined more than 12,000 Christians in services at Iglesia Casa Sobre la Roca (House on the Rock Church).  [Read More]

New York Times Bestsellers posted for the week of July 25:

• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman (Northfield/Moody) is #3 on the paperback advice list.
• The Love Dare by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Lawrence Kimbrough (B&H Publishing) is #6 on the paperback advice list.
• Coming Back Stronger by Drew Brees with Chris Fabry (Tyndale House) is #7 on the hardcover nonfiction list.
• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey (Thomas Nelson) is #8 on the hardcover advice list and #11 on the hardcover business list.
• Radical by David Platt (Multnomah) is #10 on the paperback advice list.
• Can America Survive? by John Hagee (Howard Books) is #10 on the hardcover advice list.
• The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren (Zondervan) is #12 on the paperback advice list.
• Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore (Thomas Nelson) is #14 on the paperback nonfiction list.
• The Shack by William P. Young (Windblown Media) is #22 on the paperback trade fiction list.
• 90 Minutes In Heaven by Don Piper with Cecil Murphey (Revell/Baker) is #23 on the paperback nonfiction list.
• Take Four by Karen Kingsbury (Zondervan) is #32 on the paperback trade fiction list.

Staff Changes

WaterBrook Multnomah Increases Publicity Staff

WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group is pleased to announce the hiring of Cindy Brovsky as publicist and Laura Tucker as publicity assistant.  Brovsky comes with 20 years experience working as a newspaper reporter with the Associated Press, The Denver Post, Greeley Tribune and Durango Herald, and was part of The Denver Post staff awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for coverage of the Columbine High School shootings. In 2007 she co-wrote former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb’s autobiography titled  Wellington Webb: The Mayor, The Man, and the Making of Modern Denver published by Fulcrum Publishing.Tucker graduated Valedictorian from Colorado Christian University with a Bachelors of  Arts degree in Psychology. She returns to WaterBrook Multnomah where she worked in 2005-2006 as Receptionist and Production Assistant, leaving in 2006-2009 to serve as ASsistant Director of New Life Church, Colorado Springs' 1000+ member college and 20-somethings ministry.

Product News

CCAS to celebrate renowned Marvel and DC Comics artist Sergio Cariello’s Completion of The Action Bible for David C Cook

In partnership with David C Cook, CCAS will be celebrating the upcoming release of The Action Bible: God’s Redemptive Story on September 1, 2010. Boasting over 750 pages depicting 215 Bible stories in chronological order, The Action Bible will become the most comprehensive picture Bible on the market. Based on David C Cook’s bestselling The Picture Bible, this updated version features fully revised and expanded text plus all-new illustrations from renowned Marvel and DC Comics artist Sergio Cariello.  [Read More]

Career Center Announcements

Export Sales Manager

Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, IL
If you are global-minded and have a strong sense of Christian mission, this position may be what you've been waiting for! Our fast growing International Publishing team is seeking qualified candidates for our Export Sales Manager position. The primary focus of this position will be to expand distribution of Tyndale products through relationships with distributors in global market channels. A few of the primary responsibilities for this position would include on-going strategic planning for export sales, in-house involvement with our sales team, convention planning and maintaining relationships with our publishing partners. Travel (20%- including some international) to selected meetings, conventions, and sales presentations will also be required.  Qualified candidates will possess a college degree and will have a minimum of 3 to 4 years of proven direct sales and/or sales management experience. Excellent oral and written communication and computer skills are also required for this position. If you have proven and effective working relationships and are considered a well organized and a skillful networker, we would like to consider you for this position.

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