Awards

Egmont USA for sale; Authors Guild seeks investigation into Amazon’s practices; Persepolis reinstated in Ball-Chatham classrooms; Kirkus announces finalists for 2014 prize; John Kenney wins Thurber Prize for American Humor; National Book Foundation names 5 Under 35

Binc grants encourage booksellers to attend regional shows; Find Waldo Local to be featured on MSNBC’s Your Business; SCIBA’s Goldman Scholarship winners announced; Changes made to Penguin Random House sales team

Books & Books to open new location; Maple Street Book Shop turns 50; Broadside Bookshop celebrates 40 years; DIESEL to mark 25th anniversary; Gibson’s wins Independent Spirit Award; Politics & Prose offers writer retreats; New bookstore opens with a focus on global books

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for this year’s National Book Awards for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature.

ICSC poll finds support for e-fairness at all-time high; Chase and Google to award small business grants; Study analyzes reading habits of Millennials; Man Booker Prize shortlist revealed; Neil Gaiman to present lifetime achievement award to Ursula Le Guin; Ellen Chodosh named director of NYU Press

Judith Appelbaum to be honored by BISG;  Kyle Zimmer named NBF’s Literarian Medalist; Dave Kliegman of Penguin Random House feted by Malaprop’s

Mitch Kaplan to announce National Book Award finalists on NPR; Winners of the American Poets Prizes revealed; Corporate communications changes announced at Penguin Random House; Ingram adds two distribution clients

National Book Award winners, finalists to appear at Miami Book Fair; German authors protest Amazon retaliation tactics; 2014 Hugo Award winners  announced; Louise Erdrich named winner of Dayton Literary Peace Prize; Lambda Literary Awards submission period opens

RosettaBooks inks deal with Ingram Publisher Services; Best Little Bookshop goes beta; Binc Foundation honored, names new Board members; Finalists for 2014 Thurber Prize announced

The recently announced 2014 PEN Literary Award winners are “both a great pleasure to read and a useful guide for readers seeking excellence in all the categories of writing honored,” said Alice Quinn, the chair of PEN’s Literary Awards.

HarperCollins in e-book bundling pilot program; S&S to sell, distribute Regan Arts; MIBA and GLIBA to honor Kate DiCamillo; Book Industry Charitable Foundation reveals survey results; John Green’s Looking for Alaska challenged; 2014 Man Booker longlist announced

Amazon makes play to win over Hachette authors; HarperCollins launches new website; SIBA 2014 Book Award winners selected; Midwest Booksellers Choice Awards announced; Macmillan donates to Kids’ Right to Read Project in memory of Nancy Garden; Gallery Books, Simon & Schuster partner with Omnific Publishing; Zest Books launches “Pulp” imprint for new adults

The American Library Association has named the winners of its 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Fiction and Nonfiction as chosen by a seven-member committee of library professionals from titles written in the previous year and published in the U.S.

Paz & Associates offers bookstore job board; Apple reaches settlement in e-book class action suit; Independent Book Publishing Professionals Group names award winners; Survey finds majority of parents believe summer reading not a top priority; Ingram Publisher Services adds three new publishers; PEN announces Bellwether Prize winner, literary awards longlist

BISG Annual Industry Awards open; Florida school cancels summer reading assignment over content dispute; South Carolina budget proposal called academic interference; AAUP releases Books for Understanding: Brazil