Awards

New York Times readers debate the future of bookstores; E-book settlement funds reach consumers; Gabrielle Zevin to discuss The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry on All Things Considered; Hans Christian Andersen Awards announced; Bookmasters signs with Wybel Marketing Group; Independent Publishers Group adds 16 clients

Go Local, Grow Local 2014 early registration discount ends March 31; NCIBA holding logo contest; Roxana Robinson elected president of the Authors Guild; Academy of American Poets launches Poet-to-Poet project; National Book Critics Circle names award winners; Penguin Random House to acquire Santillana Ediciones Generales; Consortium adds three presses

An array of resources to promote Children’s Book Week  and the Children’s Choice Book Awards is now available to booksellers on the CBW website, including details of an in-store display contest.

Booksellers at all ABA member stores are invited to cast their ballots for the 2014 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards from now until April 11. The winners will be honored at the Celebration of Bookselling and Author Awards Lunch at BEA.

BEA reveals lineups for author breakfasts; Bryan Pearce given posthumous humanitarian award; Senate to vote on Maria Contreras-Sweet for SBA administrator; AAUP releases Books for Understanding: Ukraine; Inaugural Pinckley Prizes announced

Booksellers look for answers from L.A. Times Festival of Books; Small Business Majority offers free media training; Supreme Court to hear workers’ case against Amazon; Linda Matthews retires from Chicago Review Press; Sylvan Dell becomes Arbordale Publishing; PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalists revealed; Lambda Literary Award finalists announced; Children’s Africana Book Award winners chosen

Publishers Weekly has named five finalists for its 22nd annual PW Bookstore of the Year Award. The finalists were chosen by past award  winners from 18 nominated stores.

Ezra Jack Keats children’s book awards announced; Michael Carley to leave Simon & Schuster

Literary prize created in honor of Politics & Prose founder; BEA to expand independent author programming; Colorado’s “Amazon tax” law blocked by judge

The ALA’s longlist for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction features 44 books that offer both fresh programming opportunities and a shortcut to a wealth of quality reading suggestions.

The Women’s National Book Association has announced the nominees in the children’s and general bookstore categories for the 2014 WNBA Pannell Award.

New appointments made to Penguin Random House’s sales team; Two clients join Ingram Publisher Services; Grammy win for Stephen Colbert and Hachette Audio

On Monday, at its Mid-Winter Meeting in Philadelphia, the American Library Association presented its 2014 awards recognizing the best in books, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults.

NBCC awards finalists announced; Holiday sales numbers as predicted; IBM says e-commerce will lose to bricks-and-mortar; S&S to launch Simon 451 imprint; Deadline approaching for NBF’s Innovations in Reading Prize; Macmillan to distribute Guinness World Records; Laurie Muchnick named fiction editor at Kirkus

Publishers Weekly is seeking nominations for its annual PW Bookstore and PW Sales Rep of the Year awards, which were created more than two decades ago to honor the country’s best independent booksellers and sales representatives.