August 6, 2018 Edition

ECPA releases Christian bestseller lists for August, based on NPD data

Book publishers may be focused on fall releases, but it is summertime for book buyers and readers. The ECPA Top 50 overall bestsellers list for August, reflecting July POS data compiled by NPD BookScan, reveals that readers are focusing on familiar titles in the summer months.

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Correction to July’s bestseller list for Top 50 Spanish:  Barbour titles were inadvertently left off last month’s Top 50 Spanish bestsellers. The corrected list is available here.

PubU data sessions will cover metadata, audio, artificial intelligence, retail data tracking, and digital technologies

Seven sessions offered at the upcoming ECPA PubU will focus on the latest developments impacting how content gets to market, and what it looks like when it gets there.  Kristen McLean (NPD) and Joshua Tallent (Firebrand) have again paired up to develop the Data, Delivery & Workflow track for content managers, analysts, metadata managers, production managers, and anyone whose role would benefit from learning about the latest trends in data, format, and technology.

Exploring everything from the latest metadata standards, to innovations in retail data tracking, new tools, services and technologies, and the emerging opportunities in the re-invented audio space — session speakers include industry leaders Brian O’Leary (BISG), Joshua Tallent (Firebrand), Kristen McLean and Michial Miller (NPD), Jens Tröger (Bookalope), Brittyne Lewis and Mike LoRusso (LSC).

ECPA PubU will be held November 6-7 at Lipscomb University in Nashville for Christian publishing professionals.  Nearly 45 sessions will be offered in marketing, editorial, rights, design, production/data, and reader engagement, including keynote session by Donald Miller (StoryBrand), and a plenary session with Kristen McLean (NPD) on the future of faith and retail.

Early bird registration is now open at ECPAPubU.org

Max Lucado featured in media on upcoming book, “Unshakable Hope”

Jesus Calling podcast:  New York Times bestselling author Max Lucado recently joined the Jesus Calling podcast to talk about his latest book, Unshakeable Hope: Building Our Lives On the Promises of God, in which he offers encouraging guidance for overcoming sadness and despair, renewing a sense of purpose, and triumphantly facing our fears of the future. Unshakeable Hope is available in August 2018. More at facebook.com/JesusCalling.

Bible Gateway: In this Q&A, Max Lucado (@MaxLucado) talks about his book releasing this week, Unshakable Hope: Building Our Lives on the Promises of God (Thomas Nelson, 2018). Read this interview.

Bible Gateway interviews Joanne J. Jung on “The Lost Discipline of Conversation”

What practices of the Puritans, who lived centuries ago, can inform modern Christians in their spiritual lives of reading the Bible, praying, and meditating? What have we forgotten from the past that we need to reclaim for the health of our spiritual formation? Bible Gateway interviewed Joanne J. Jung about her book, The Lost Discipline of Conversation: Surprising Lessons in Spiritual Formation Drawn from the English Puritans (Zondervan, 2018).

Read this interview.