Sherwood Pictures’ Courageous was the No. 4 movie in the country last weekend during its opening and the No. 1 new movie. The fatherhood-themed film ranked just behind No. 1 Dolphin Tale, No. 2 Moneyball and No. 3 The Lion King 3-D.

Longtime electronic Bible study publisher Logos Bible Software has launched an e-bookstore for Christian books.

Vyrso debuts with more than 4,000 titles available for download on computers, smartphones and tablets. Thomas Nelson, Crossway, Baker Publishing Group and Tyndale House Publishers are among the first publishers to make titles available through the service.

Heaven is for Real sits at No. 1 on the Top 20 General best-sellers list, while Beverly Lewis’ final installment of “The Rose” trilogy, The Mercy, heads the Top 10 Fiction list in the new weekly best-sellers introduced by Christian Retailing in association with the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA). In addition, Zondervan took all five spots in Top Five Bibles, with the hardcover NIV Adventure Bible leading the list.

The second annual Christian Store Week—running Oct. 1-10—joins together 500 Christian retail stores in the nationwide event. Christian retailers and industry partners are offering discounts on products as well as author/artist in-store meet-and-greets.

Retailing ReBoot West (RRW), sponsored by Christian Retailing, has announced the authors participating in the author reception Monday evening of the Oct. 17-18 event. George Thomsen, CBA’s chairman of the board and general manager of Harvest Bookstore in Riverside, Calif., will be speaking, as will Aurelio Barreto, gift director on the CBA board, and founder and CEO of C28 stores and Not of This World apparel.