Awards

04 Mar

BTW News Briefs


Tobias Wolff Wins Story Prize

Tobias Wolff was named the winner of the Story Prize for his collection Our Story Begins (Knopf) at a ceremony at New York's New School Tishman Auditorium on Wednesday night, March 4. In his acceptance speech, Wolff praised the other two finalists Jhumpa Lahiri (Unaccustomed Earth, Knopf) and Joe Meno (Demons in the Spring, Akashic Books). The event featured all three authors reading from their collections and discussing their work with Larry Dark, director of The Story Prize.

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03 Mar

ABA Named to Advance America Honor Roll

The American Booksellers Association has been named to the 2009 Associations Advance America Honor Roll, a national awards competition sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the Center for Association Leadership in Washington, D.C. ABA was honored for IndieBound, the community-oriented movement, launched in May 2008, which brings together booksellers, readers, indie retailers, local business alliances, and anyone else with a passionate belief that healthy local economies help communities thrive.

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25 Feb

BTW News Briefs

GLIBA Awards Six Buy Local Grants

The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA) has announced the recipients of Buy Local grants ranging from $100 to $500 and underwritten by the sponsorship of Bookazine.

The six recipients are:

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19 Feb

ABA to Launch Indies Choice Book Awards

New categories, new selection process highlight successor to Book Sense Book of the Year Awards

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26 Jan

2009 Caldecott & Newbery Award Winners Announced

On Monday, January 26, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the winners of its Caldecott and Newbery medals and other awards for the best children's and young adult literature at its Midwinter Meeting in Denver.

Among this year's winners were:

JOHN NEWBERY MEDAL for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, HarperCollins Children's Books

NEWBERY HONOR BOOKS

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21 Jan

BTW News Briefs

Co-optimize and Co-op Advertising Solutions Announce Merger

On January 21, Co-optimize, LLC and Co-op Advertising Solutions, LLC announced that they were joining forces and merging business operations. The combined company, Co-op Solutions, LLC, will offer co-op services featuring two divisions, Co-optimize Full Service and Co-optimize Online.

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21 Jan

WNBA Pannell Award Finalists Announced

The Women's National Book Association has announced the nominees for its 2009 Pannell Awards. Established in 1981 to honor Lucile Micheels Pannell, the awards recognize retail bookstores that excel at inspiring young people's interest in books and reading.

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14 Jan

BTW News Briefs

National Jewish Book Award Winners Announced

On January 14, the National Jewish Book Council announced the winners of the 2008 National Jewish Book Awards to be honored on March 5 at a ceremony at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. The winners include:

  • Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir: Marie Syrkin: Values Beyond the Self by Carole S. Kessner (Brandeis University Press/University Press of New England)

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06 Jan

PW Seeks Nominations for Bookseller & Rep of the Year

Publishers Weekly is seeking nominations for its Bookseller and Sales Rep of the Year to be honored in May at BookExpo America in New York City.

Nominees for the Bookseller of the Year Award must operate a professional storefront retail bookstore in the U.S. and should excel in buying and vendor relations, marketing, handselling, customer care, community involvement, management-employee relations, merchandising, and business operations.

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20 Nov

National Book Awards Ceremony Reflects Hope for the Future


National Book Award winners, left to right: Mark Doty, Annette Gordon-Reed, Judy Blundell, Peter Matthiessen (click for larger image)

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19 Nov

BTW News Briefs


NRF Holiday Study: Books to Be a Hot Item This Year

Though the majority of consumers have not even put a dent in their shopping list, traditional winter apparel and personal, inexpensive items like DVDs, CDs, and books will be the first things they stock up on as they begin their holiday shopping, according to NRF's 2008 Holiday Consumer Intentions and Actions Survey, conducted by BIGresearch.

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27 Oct

Nominations Sought for 2009 Pannell Awards

The Women's National Book Association is seeking nominations for its 2009 Pannell Awards, honoring retail bookstores that excel at inspiring an interest in reading, as well as creatively bringing books and young people together.

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15 Oct

National Book Award Finalists Announced

On Wednesday, October 15, author Scott Turow announced the 20 finalists for the 2008 National Book Awards from the stage of the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago.

This year's finalists are:

Fiction

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09 Oct

French Novelist Wins Nobel Prize

On Thursday, October 9, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, a French novelist, children's author, and essayist, was named the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature. The Swedish Academy described Le Clezio as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure, and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization."

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11 Sep

Around Indie Bookstores


UConn's Suzy Staubach to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Suzy Staubach, manager of the General Books Division at the UConn Co-Op in Storrs, Connecticut, will receive the Lifetime Achievement in Service to the Literary Community Award, presented by the Connecticut Center for the Book, at its Seventh Annual Connecticut Book Awards on Sunday, September 21.

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