September 29, 2025 Edition

Tomorrow:  Last day for Christian Book Award® submissions

The Christian Book Award program, recognizing the highest quality in Christian books and Bibles from ECPA member publishers, will close submissions for the 2026 program tomorrow, September 30. The 2026 awards will honor the “best of the year” in 12 categories, published by ECPA members from October 2024 to October 2025.

Top Shelf Book Cover Award winners to be revealed at PubU opening session

Each year, the Top Shelf Book Cover Awards recognize design excellence in Christian publishing. On October 31 during the opening session of PubU Online, the year’s best book designs in four categories will be presented by Brian Chung and Samuel Han Park of Alabaster Co., a company committed to merging  faith and creativity in meaningful ways.

More at TopShelfAward.org
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PubU Online Sales Track adds new session on building D2C program

Session two of PubU Online’s debut Sales Track was recently changed to feature a session led by Anthony Gosling, U.S. CEO of 10ofthose, on “Building a Direct-To-Consumer Program Without Competing With Other Partners,” a hands-on guide to building a DTC program that actually works with your retail, wholesale, and distribution partners—not against them. View the full track of sessions here.

Sales professionals are encouraged to register soon at ECPAPubU.org

Publishing in Color's fall conference scheduled Oct. 27-31

Publishing in Color has set the dates for their fall virtual conference, for October 27-31. The conference will feature live and recorded workshops, Q&A, and one on one appointments with editors, agents and coaches. Directed by industry leader Joyce Dinkins, the conference aims to grow ethnic diversity in Christian publishing.

More at publishingincolor.com/register-now/

knkMedia announces successful upgrade at Karnov Group

The legal publishing house Karnov Group | Norstedts Juridik AB, based in Stockholm, has successfully upgraded to the latest version knkMedia 2024 R2 (Dynamics 365 Business Central Version 25/BC 25) after a project duration of just six months.

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Sessions and speakers announced for Rights Track, Nov. 10–14

The basis of all publishing is the contractual right publishers have to leverage copyright for ministry and commercial gain. The PubU Rights Track, held Nov. 10-14 at 10 am CT and curated by Tim Thornborough (publishing director of The Good Book Co.), will equip you to manage and sell translation and other rights in a fast-changing world powered by AI – while hearing about real-world opportunities and problems that will give you fresh ideas and practical solutions. Each session will focus on a key topic, an international market area feature, and an update on basic practices:

• Buy Wide, Sell Narrow. Market feature: South East Asia
• Different Kinds of Rights. Market feature: Sub-Saharan Africa
• Disasters and How to Avoid Them. Market feature: Middle East and North Africa
• The Future of Rights & AI. Market feature: Spanish-language

Register now at ECPAPubU.org
Full access to 35+ PubU sessions and recordings — all included for one low price!