Awards

On Wednesday night, November 18, the winners of the 2015 National Book Awards for fiction, nonfiction, young people’s literature, and poetry were announced in a ceremony in New York City.

BookCon announces celebrity-studded guest list; HarperOne to publish new digital-first fiction line; 2015 National Outdoor Book Award winners announced; District of Columbia Library Association wins 2015 WNBA Eastman Grant

This week, the American Library Association revealed the shortlists for its 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The announcement’s move to October gives booksellers the chance to promote the finalists to holiday shoppers.

European Commission rules against tax advantages given to Starbucks, Fiat; 2015 Kirkus Prize winners announced; Beyond Lolita to raise money for PEN America’s Writers’ Emergency Fund

Query Books launches Kickstarter to reprint forgotten LGBT classics; A Brief History of Seven Killings wins 2015 Man Booker Prize; Ingram Content Group to offer Global Connect in China, India, and Italy; 12 U.S. publishers sign PEN’s pledge to address Chinese censorship

Here are the shortlists for the 2015 National Book Awards; the winners will be announced on November 18 at a ceremony in New York City.

Top online communities for small business owners; National Reading Group Month’s 2015 Great Group Reads; Ingram to distribute Humanoids Inc.; Consortium adds seven distribution clients; Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in Literature; Keen Communications acquires Adventure Publications

SBA offers EMV card webinar; Schumacher wins Thurber Prize; We Need Diverse Books to present first Walter Dean Myers Award; 23 publishers sign deals with IPG; National Book Foundation announces 2015 “5 under 35” honorees; 2015 Kirkus Prize finalists announced; NetGalley introduces “Wish Granting”; Edelweiss partners with DOGObooks; HarperCollins forms HarperCollins Italia 

2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction longlist revealed; German booksellers association files complaint against Amazon/Audible; Oyster e-book subscription service to end; National Book Foundation to honor James Patterson; Financial Times, McKinsey announce shortlist for 2015 Business Book of Year

PEN Center USA 2015 Literary Award winners announced; Pearson to hold onto Penguin Random House until 2017; Ingram Publisher Services adds five new clients; Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 shortlist revealed; ASTRA names new president; Authors Guild survey finds members’ incomes down 30 percent since 2009

This week, the National Book Foundation announced the longlists for the 2015 National Book Awards in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and young people’s literature.

Perseus Books Group back on the market; WNDB announces winner of first short story contest; Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition to honor Joyce Meskis

Paz workshop draws prospective booksellers from U.S. and beyond; Inaugural Blue Willow-Vener Barnes Scholarship opens to MPIBA booksellers; BISG reveals Industry Innovation Award shortlist; Winners of Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Awards announced

Hugo Award winners, Thurber Prize finalists announced; BISG reveals shortlists for most valuable volunteer, industry champion; HarperCollins India gets new CEO; Mississippi Book Festival exceeds expectations; IPS adds three publishers; Campaign asks bloggers to visit their local indie bookstores 

Find Waldo Local to return for fifth year; SIBA welcomes new and returning board members; BISG announces 2015 Lifetime Service Award recipient; University of Akron Press to reopen