Balloting for Book of the Year Awards Ends March 3

There are less than two weeks left for the bookseller members of the American Booksellers Association to cast their votes for the 2008 Book Sense Book of the Year Awards. Everyone working at an ABA member store is eligible to vote.

Voting online and via fax to (914) 591-2720 is open until midnight on Monday, March 3. Ballots sent via regular mail must be postmarked by Friday, February 22, and received at ABA (BSBY at ABA/Book Sense, 200 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, New York 10591) by March 3.

The Book Sense Book of the Year Awards, honoring independent booksellers' handselling favorites in the categories of Adult Fiction and Nonfiction and Children's Literature and Illustrated, will be presented at ABA's Celebration of Bookselling at BookExpo America in Los Angeles.

The ballot includes titles appearing on the 2007 Book Sense Picks lists, as well as space for write-ins in each category. Only books published in 2007 are eligible. The title receiving the most votes in each category will be designated the Book Sense Book of the Year. The next four titles with the highest number of votes in each category will be designated Book Sense Honor Books.

Winners and honor books will be announced in late March, and their authors will be invited to attend the Book Sense Author Luncheon and the Celebration of Bookselling at BEA.