Awards

Ann Patchett, the 2012 Indies Choice Award winner for Most Engaging Author, has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World.

 2011’s Most Challenged Books; Independent Book Blogger Awards Contest voting; The Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist

Ingram’s VitalSource adds Andriod application; Consortium launches Bookslinger app; Ghost Hero wins Dilys; Pew Research documents e-book rise

A record-breaking number of independent booksellers nationwide cast their ballots in March, and today the American Booksellers Association announces the winners of the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.

Publishers Weekly has named Roberta Rubin’s The Book Stall at Chestnut Court in Winnetka, Illinois, as the  PW Bookseller of the Year for 2012.

Awards: Pen/Faulkner for Fiction and NCIBA Books of the Year; Harry Potter e-books on sale; Georgia Senate recognizes state’s indie booksellers

Voting by ABA member booksellers for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards comes to an end at midnight on Saturday, March 31.

New distribution arrangements for Cambridge University Press and The World Almanac; the winners of the Hans Christian Andersen Awards and The Story Prize; the Lammy finalists

Booksellers at ABA member stores have until midnight on March 31 to cast their ballots for the Indies Choice and the E.B. White Read-Aloud awards. The winners will be honored at ABA’s Celebration of Bookselling Author Awards Luncheon on June 5  at BEA.

The finalists for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards are now highlighted on a new page for  IndieCommerce websites. 

March 24 declared National Cash Mob Day; GLIBA and MIBA launch Heartland Fall Forum website; Consortium adds eight publishers; Tiptree and Books for a Better Life award winners named

The owners and staff at all ABA member bookstores can now cast their ballots for the 2012 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards. Voting is open till March 31 via an electronic form on BookWeb.org.

First Amendment loses a champion; PEN/Faulkner announces fiction finalists

An update on the March Indie Next List; The Grammys go to; British study finds readers switching to e-books; BISG welcomes four board members

Publishers Weekly is seeking nominations for its 20th annual PW Bookstore and Sales Rep of the Year awards, to be presented in June at BookExpo America. The deadline for nominations is February 20.