Awards

Binc blog to cover qualifying events for bookseller assistance; NAIBA announces 2015 award winners; Alice Award shortlist revealed; HarperCollins, Ediouro Group establish HarperCollins Brasil

Congress raises SBA lending ceiling; Man Booker Prize announces 2015 longlist; BookBrowse publishes white paper on book clubs; AAUP responds to closure of University of Akron Press; New England Book Award winners announced

Midwest Booksellers Choice Award winners announced; Go Set a Watchman becomes fastest-selling book in HarperCollins’ history; Deadline approaches for 2016 PEN Literary Awards title submissions

Through July 31, Publishers Weekly is accepting nominations for PW Star Watch, a program designed to recognize exceptional emerging talent in the U.S. book trade. Candidates may come from any segment of the industry, including publishing, bookselling, and libraries, as long as they are based in the U.S.

Submissions sought for 28th Lambda Literary Awards; 2015 Thriller Award winners announced; Ingram launches 1440 accelerator program

NYC Bookseller Social to take place at Housing Works; Trafalgar Square signs five new publishers; Man Booker International Prize to focus on books in translation

BISG seeks nominations for Industry Champion and Innovation Awards; WNDB scholarship winners to receive free membership in children’s literary society; PEN posts summary of Emerging Writers Prize-winning work

On June 27, ALA announced the winners of the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction: All the Light We Cannot See and Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, both titles with strong support from indie booksellers from the very start.

2015 Andrew Carnegie fiction, nonfiction medal winners to be announced on Saturday; ReadingGroupGuides.com launches 2015 Book Group Survey; Inkshares allows stores to create their own imprints; We Need Diverse Books welcomes new members to Advisory Board, Executive Committee; 2015 New England Society in the City of New York Book Award winners announced

Nobrow Press, a London-based graphic novel publisher,  produces unique, sustainably printed graphic novels, comics, and picture books by illustrators from the U.S., the U.K., and other European countries.

[words] Bookstore in Maplewood, New Jersey, was one of just 10 businesses in the U.S. to receive the Ruderman Best in Business Award, which spotlights businesses and employers who hire and support people with disabilities.

Post-BEA report points to rising attendance; Publishing industry survey reports $28 billion in revenue in 2014; We Need Diverse Books announces publishing internship grant winners; Additional winners announced at PEN Literary Awards Ceremony; Simon & Schuster to distribute Gallup Press; Bookmasters signs international sales and distribution agreements; Lerner partners with Quarto Library

2015 Children’s Choices List released; PEN calls for 2016 literary awards submissions; Nebraska votes to reduce property taxes when federal e-fairness passes; 27th Annual Lambda Literary Award winners announced; Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards finalists announced; Zazzle and Candlewick Press launch online shop

Pannell Award winners celebrated at BEA; Battle Creek Books, An Unlikely Story open; Phoenix Books Rutland welcomes minority owner; Literary Bookpost extends offerings, hours; Purple Tree Books adds coffee shop; Explore Booksellers ramps up programming

The 15th annual Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Luncheon recognized the authors and illustrators who have helped to make bookselling meaningful, rewarding, fulfilling, and fun for independent booksellers over the past year.