Christian Retailing

CBA chair-elect, discussions at The Gathering Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Monday, 01 March 2010 03:02 PM America/New_York

Major trends and key industry issues will be on the menu when Christian retailers and suppliers meet and eat at The Gathering 2010 in April.

Meal times at the three-day event at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky., will feature presentations and discussions on several issues, including digital publishing's impact on retail and the growing importance of discount books.

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Retailers Choice Awards voting is open Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 01:37 PM America/New_York
Voting has opened in Christian Retailing's 2010 Retailers Choice Awards. Retailers are invited to vote for what they think are the best products of the year among the 275-plus nominations in 32 categories by clicking here.

Retailers voting in the 10th annual competition will also have the opportunity to win hundreds of dollars' worth of the nominated products.

Celebrating 10 years in 2010, the Retailers Choice Awards have been increasingly acknowledged as an important way of recognizing some of the most significant new life-changing products in the Christian retail industry.

The 2010 Retailers Choice Awards winners will be announced at Christian Retailing's The Gathering 2010 event, to be held April 21-23 at Southeast Christian Church in Louisville, Ky.

Christian store personnel--owners, managers, frontline staff and volunteers--are asked to judge nominations on the impact they have had on staff and customers, including their ability to speak to people's hearts and evoke emotion, open people's minds to new ways of thinking and encourage and affirm Christ-like living.

Click here for the listing of categories and official rules of the Retailers Choice Awards, or e-mail Managing Editor Christine Johnson for more information at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

 

 
Booklog spotlighted in virtual show Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:14 PM America/New_York
Booklog's P.O.S. (point-of-sale) and inventory management systems for independent booksellers are being spotlighted in Christian Retailing's Virtual Christian Restock Connection.

Running through March 30, the show is hosted by Christian Retailing magazine, highlighting some of the key new and backlist products from leading suppliers.

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Free social-media Webinar offered Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:19 PM America/New_York
Christian retailers are to be given ideas on how to use new technology to drive sales in a special online class.

The free hour-long Webinar that will show how stores can utilize social media and even Amazon.com's services to their advantage is to be hosted by Christian Retailing magazine Thursday, March 18.

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Leading chains boost Newworldson Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:39 PM America/New_York
Christian retail specials: Canadian quartet Newworldson gets a boost for its new, self-titled release with special offers from two leading chains and a marketing group. Click here to read about all the latest Christian retail channel offers in our online round-up.
 
VeggieTales’ ‘Pistachio’ coming to Christian stores Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 03:49 PM America/New_York
Big Idea is releasing Pistachio: The Little Boy That Woodn't in Christian retail stores Saturday, Feb. 27, three days ahead of the general market.

A twist on the classic story of Pinocchio, the DVD offers a lesson about the importance of family and children listening to their parents, while highlighting Eph. 6:1-3 and the parable of the lost sheep from Matt. 18:10-14 and Luke 15: 4-7.

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Revell signs Mary Beth Chapman to book deal Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 04:01 PM America/New_York
Revell--a division of Baker Publishing Group--has signed Mary Beth Chapman, wife of award-winning artist Steven Curtis Chapman, to a book deal.

Choosing to SEE: A Journey of Struggle and Hope--to be released in September and promoted during the Women of Faith conferences and her husband's fall concert tour--tells the story of Chapman's lifelong struggles with God through bouts with depression and the death of the Chapmans' daughter Maria in an accident in May 2008.

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Bethany House to publish TobyMac book Print Email
Written by Eric Tiansay   
Thursday, 25 February 2010 04:08 PM America/New_York
Best-selling artist and GRAMMY winner TobyMac has signed with Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group, to release a new book later this year.

City On Our Knees, also a song title on TobyMac's newly released Tonight (Forefront Records/EMI CMG Distribution), will be published in September. Bethany House has ordered a first printing of 200,000, and the title will be backed by a $200,000 marketing budget, including radio promotion and social media.

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