Designed to help stores generate sales, the risk-free program features a special introductory offer to Barbour's new DayMaker Gift Book Program, which includes 180-day billing, 29 new gift items and 50% discount as well as free freight, returns and corrugate display.

KMG founder and Chairman Art Ayris said his Leesburg, Fla.-based company "had a very small showing" at last year's show, but will spotlight the film The Touch on DVD in booth No. 1954 of the Colorado Convention Center. Ayris--who serves as executive pastor of First Baptist Leesburg--said the movie is based on a true story of Hannah, whose journey takes her through divorce, abuse, rape, jail and homelessness.

Delegates from more than 15 countries are expected to attend Marketsquare, including a number of mainland Chinese publishers who will again be sponsored by CTAI. The largest Christian trade gathering in Asia, Marketsquare will feature an exhibit floor as well as bookseller and publisher/distributor workshops to be taught by former NavPress Publisher Kent Wilson and CTAI Training Director Jack Scott.

After The Climb the best-selling DVDs were: 2. Minnesota Cuke and the Search for Samson's Hairbrush (Big Idea/Word Distribution); 3. Fireproof (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity Distribution); 4. Flywheel (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 5. Faith Like Potatoes (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Provident-Integrity); 6. Left Behind Trilogy, DVD Collection (Cloud Ten Pictures/E1 Entertainment Distribution); 7. Come What May (Provident Films/Provident-Integrity); 8. Hermie the Common Caterpillar, Hermie & Friends (Thomas Nelson/Thomas Nelson); 9. The Retrievers (GT Media/EMI CMG); and 10. Stayin' Alive ... Laughing! by Chonda Pierce (No Whining Productions/Provident-Integrity).

Following Portable Sounds were: 2. Over and Underneath by Tenth Avenue North (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 3. Wow Hits 2009 by various artists (Wow Gospel/Provident-Integrity); 4. A Cross the Earth: Tear Down the Walls by Hillsong United (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 5. Hello Love by Chris Tomlin (sixstepsrecords/EMI CMG); 6. A New Hallelujah by Michael W. Smith (Reunion Records/Provident-Integrity); 7. My Paper Heart by Francesca Battistelli (Fervent Records/Word); 8. Kari Jobe by Kari Jobe (Integrity Music/Provident-Integrity); 9. In the Hands of God by Newsboys (Inpop Records/EMI CMG); and 10. While I'm Waiting by John Waller (Beach Street Records/Provident-Integrity).

The video listings, drawn from a national sample of mainstream and Christian store sales, with music listings based on sales solely at Christian stores, were produced for the Christian Music Trade Association by Nielsen SoundScan.

As Christian publishers put more focus on "going green," they have been encouraged in their efforts by two unlikely sources--Wal-Mart and Harry Potter.

The retail giant's insistence that publishers use paper made from trees harvested in "sustainable forests"--younger-growth forests where trees are responsibly harvested and replaced--has helped get publishers' attention, according to Dwight Baker.

They see advantages if more independents were to join forces; if data collection and reporting were consolidated; and if best-seller lists were combined.