CBA will host the second CBA MarketSquare Budapest Rights Fair at the Radisson Blu Beke Hotel in Hungary on April 7-8, 2016.

MarketSquare Budapest offers a unique industry opportunity to interact with Christian publishers and suppliers in an informal setting. The focus is on one-on-one appointment times and networking for relationship building and increased market knowledge. The primary emphasis is foreign-language rights sales, but publishing services and other products also are offered.

Howard Books announced Tuesday that Lisa Stilwell has joined the company as senior editor.

Stilwell’s 17-year history of book publishing began at Multnomah Publishers. She then joined HarperCollins Christian Publishing, where she worked with New York Times best-selling authors such as Max Lucado, Sarah Young, Charles Stanley, Billy Graham, Lee Strobel and David Jeremiah. She has also served as editor for Robert Morgan, O.S. Hawkins and Robert Morris, as well as for entertainers such as Matthew West and Steven Curtis Chapman.

Chonda Pierce: Laughing in the Dark was the No. 1 per-screen average in ticket sales and No. 5 movie in America on Tuesday, Oct. 27. The documentary premiered in select theaters across the country for a one-night-only cinema engagement, garnering sellouts in more than 125 theaters. The film will return to the big screen for a special encore showing Tuesday, Nov. 17.

Group Publishing's Jesus-Centered Bible is the best-selling specialty Bible in North America, according to CBA-reported sales data received from over 2,000 Christian retailers.

Released in September, the Jesus-Centered Bible offers a “blue letter” feature that references over 600 passages in the Old Testament that connect to passages relating to Jesus in the New Testament.

Christian retailer Danni Schneidt-Hill hosted an unusual CSI sale event at Promises "His" Coffee & Cottage Shoppe in Malta, Montana, on Thursday evening, Oct. 29.

Schneidt-Hill told Christian Retailing the Crime Scene Investigation event as a “very fun, life-encouraging event.” She said it required little effort to launch but built awareness for the store and turned out to be a “super successful night.”

The November issue of Christian Retailing highlights the Vacation Bible School (VBS) market and how retailers can serve churches most effectively.

Dr. Julie Horner, managing editor of learning resources with My Healthy Church, explains how to adopt a monthly checklist to ensure VBS sales success. Jody Brolsma asserts that VBS is still effective and shares the best ways for stores to serve churches ahead of their VBS outreach.

The latest LoyaltyOne consumer research tells U.S. retailers that customer service mistakes made with Cyber Monday online shoppers could lead to significant in-store sales losses in the 2015 holiday gift-buying season. 

In LoyaltyOne’s October nationwide survey of 1,019 American consumers, nearly half (47%) of Cyber Monday shoppers indicated they’ll be reluctant to make an in-store holiday season purchase from a retailer with whom they have an unhappy online experience the Monday after Thanksgiving.