Awards

UPS survey shows support for shopping local; BEA releases preliminary attendance figures; Children’s Book Council offers summer reading lists; Lambda Literary Awards winners announced; Jack Covert retires from 800-CEO-READ; Penguin Random House reveals new branding; De Gruyter to distribute Princeton University Press; Bookmasters to distribute h.f.ullmann

Kirkus to award three $50,000 prizes for literature; Above the Treeline introduces Edelweiss print catalog options; Rowman & Littlefield purchases Globe Pequot Press; IPG signs eight publishers

Deadline nearing for Vonnegut display contest; Keywords Press to publish YouTube stars; Fifteen new countries exhibiting at BEA; Christopher Award winners celebrated; Burmese bookseller and publisher to be honored at BEA; S&S e-book backlist now on Oyster, Scribd; Ingram grows MyiLibrary offerings 

Prospective booksellers learn the ropes; U.K. official demands Amazon pay fair share of tax; NAIBA accepting nominations for Drabyak, Helmuth awards; SIBA, MIBA announce book award finalists

Awards season in full swing; News Corp. to purchase Harlequin; New address for HarperCollins; BookCon signs on Veronica Roth; BEA staff celebrate reading in new video

Binc’s assistance to booksellers on the rise; BEA adds keynote with author Walter Isaacson; Lambda names Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists and Emerging Writers; Deadline nears for National Book Awards submissions

HealthCare.gov urges users to reset passwords due to Heartbleed; Lambda Literary Foundation announces 2014 honorees; SIBA announces trade show locations through 2017; John Green added to BookCon lineup

The winners of the 2014 Women’s National Book Association’s Pannell Awards, which honor a general bookstore and a children’s specialty store for employing exceptional creativity to foster a love of reading in their young patrons, were announced on Wednesday.

ABA president talks U.S. indies at London Book Fair; ABFFE’s Chris Finan wins Hefner award; Top 10 most frequently challenged books revealed; Pulitzer Prize winners announced; Los Angeles Times Book Prizes awarded; McNamee steps down as president of EBF; University presses look to Ingram’s CoreSource 

The winners of the 2014 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, as voted by independent booksellers nationwide, were announced today by the American Booksellers Association.

Tomorrow, April 11, is the final day for booksellers at ABA member stores to submit their  ballots to choose this year’s winners of the Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.

The Carnegie Medals’ strong library connection sets the shortlisted titles apart and makes them ideal for promotion in bookstore programming and marketing efforts highlighting outstanding titles.

Booksellers named National Book Awards judges; Michael Tamblyn appointed Kobo president; BEA Global Market Forum speakers announced; NCIBA Book of the Year winners, Christopher Award winners, NYPL Young Lions Awards finalists unveiled; Ingram adds two clients

Every bookseller at an ABA member store can have a say in selecting the titles that best reflect the spirit of indie bookselling by casting their ballots for the Indies Choice and E.B. White Read-Aloud awards by midnight on April 11.

San Francisco’s Green Apple Books, owned by Kevin Hunsanger, Kevin Ryan, and Pete Mulvihill, has been named PW Bookstore of the Year for 2014.