Awards

Split Rock Books, Biblio-Tech Café, Shakespeare & Co. to open in New York; Expansions and renovations for Monkey and Dog Books, Prairie Pages, Brace Books; The Book Barn, the river’s end, BookBar mark anniversaries; Chapters Bookshop owner joins city council; Bustle looks at genre bookstores; Local news highlights stores in Boston, New York City, and Shelbyville, Indiana

NBF to expand programming; Rare Bird Books and Book Passage launch display contest for bookstores; Author Philip Roth dies; Roz Parr to step down at Vintage Anchor; PRH Canada gains new CEO; Promotions at Penguin and Viking Children’s; Bonnier and GLAAD to release LGBT-themed series for kids; 2018 Man Booker International Prize winner, Nebula Award winners, Chautauqua Prize winner announced

The program invites booksellers, publishing professionals, authors, or bookstore shoppers to share why they think an indie bookstore employee should receive a holiday grant.

Today, James Patterson announced his 2018 pledge to independent bookstore employees: a personal contribution of $250,000 as part of his Holiday Bookstore Bonus Program.

BookExpo to feature panel on turning books into films; Otto Penzler launches Penzler Publishers; Former Penguin Group chair Peter Mayer dies; Author Tom Wolfe dies; Innovations in Reading Prize winner, New England Society Book Award winners, British Book Award winners, Shirley Jackson Award nominees announced

Booksellers at independent bookstores nationwide have chosen the winners of the 2018 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards in nine categories.

NYT columnist criticizes Amazon’s effect on book business; Senators to file CRA to reinstate net neutrality; Michelle Obama to open 2018 ALA Conference; Random House Children’s to launch graphic novel imprint; Tracey Guest promoted at St. Martin’s; Lonely Planet CEO leaves company; Manhattan Beach wins “One Book, One New York” contest; Award of 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature to be postponed; Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction winner, Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist announced

Voting extended for Children’s & Teen Choice Book Awards; Former publishing CEOs buy Arcadia Publishing; Staff changes at Quirk, Viking, and Penguin; U.K.’s Waterstones bookstore chain sold; Triangle Award winners, Anna Dewdney Read Together Award winner, Edgar Allan Poe Award winners, James Beard Foundation Book Awards winners, MPIBA Reading the West shortlist announced

AAP announces CEO panels at BookExpo; IPG signs 10 new publishers; University Press of New England to shut down; L.A. Times Book Prize winners, SIBA book prize finalists, Lambda Literary honorees, MacDowell Colony fellows announced

The voting deadline is May 2 for booksellers to cast their ballots to choose the winners of the 2018 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.

W.W. Norton to launch Norton Young Readers; McGuire named new Atria publisher; HMH announces promotions in sales department; Megan Fishmann promoted to associate publisher, publicity director for Catapult; PEN America responds to festival participant’s rejection by U.S. immigration; Pulitzer Prize winners, New England Society Book Award finalists, Young Lions Fiction Award finalists, Man Booker International Prize shortlist announced

Busboys and Poets to open in Denver; KiCam Books & Gifts opens in Ohio; Eight Cousins reopens; Fireside Books changes hands; River House Books bought by local businessowners; Staff changes at Harvard Book Store; Rakestraw Books celebrates 45 years; Breakwater Books celebrates renovations; All Things Considered features Literati Bookstore; Maine Public Radio features Blue Hill Books, Print, Longfellow; Ellen Plumb’s gets an Espresso Book Machine; Pegasus Books named best bookstore

All staff at ABA member stores are invited to cast their ballots to choose the winners of the 2018 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. The voting deadline is May 2.

Book Rich Environments Initiative kicks off second year; Madeline McIntosh named CEO of Penguin Random House U.S.; Independent Booksellers Consortium seeks new executive director; Personnel changes at Workman; AUPresses issues principles on fighting censorship; BISG Lifetime Service Award, Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist, Graywolf Press Africa Prize winner announced