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| Written by Eric Tiansay | |
| Monday, 17 January 2011 03:30 PM America/New_York | |
 Independent Christian retailers must develop a digital strategy soon if they are to have a future, they heard yesterday at the Munce Group's Christian Product Expo (CPE) in Hershey, Pa. |
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Snapping a string of five months in decline, sales of religious books rose in November, as overall book sales increased by 5.1% to $852 million and were up by 3.5% for the year, according to the Association of American Publishers (AAP). 
Kingstone Media Group's faith-based offerings, which include science fiction, action adventure, historical fiction, biographies and biblical epics, are being highlighted in Christian Retailing's Virtual Christian Retailing Winter Show. 
Suppliers have begun nominating their best releases of the year in the 2011 Retailers Choice Awards. Companies wishing to enter have until Jan. 17 to take advantage of the Early-Bird discount in the competition's record 45 categories. 
Captain Salvation is the star of a new Christian comic book called The Lion of Judah, with a spring movie touted as the first 3-D, faith-based film to come to theaters. 
Teen sailor Abby Sunderland has signed with Thomas Nelson to write a book telling how she set out to become the youngest person in history to circumnavigate the globe alone last year. 
Christian music's largest annual tour, the Winter Jam 2011 Tour Spectacular kicked off last weekend in Chattanooga, Tenn., Charleston, W.Va., and Charlotte, N.C. 
Response has been "tremendous" for Thomas Nelson Book Review Bloggers, a program launched in October 2008 for bloggers to post reviews of the company's latest products, company officials said. 