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WORD:
American Booksellers Association to launch Indies Choice Book Awards
Edited Press Release
This spring, the American Booksellers Association will launch a new
awards program -- the Indies Choice Book Awards. Indie booksellers will
select winners in seven categories highlighting the type of books that
indie booksellers champion best. The Indies Choice Book Awards, which
supersede the Book Sense Book of the Year Awards, reflect the spirit of
ABA member booksellers in the IndieBound
movement and their dedication
to handselling unique, thought-provoking, engaging fiction and
nonfiction, children's and YA titles.
Finalists,
selected by an all-bookseller jury, will be put to a vote by ABA member
booksellers in the coming weeks. The categories for this year's
inaugural Indies Choice Book Awards are Best Indie Buzz Book (fiction),
Best Conversation Starter (nonfiction), Best Author Discovery (debut),
Best Read-Aloud Book, Best YA Buzz Book, Most Engaging Author, and the
Read-Aloud Hall of Fame. Finalists in the first five categories will be
selected by an all-bookseller jury from titles appearing on the 2008
Indie Next Lists, which launched last July, and on the Book Sense Picks
Lists from the first half of the year.
Finalists for the Most Engaging Author Award will be chosen from among
authors who are not only engaging at in-store appearances, but who also
have a strong sense of the importance of independent booksellers to
their communities at large. There is no restriction on publication date
for nominees for induction into the Read-Aloud Hall of Fame, which will
recognize up to three great backlist titles this year.
Jury members selecting the 2009 finalists to be presented to all ABA
member booksellers for a vote in the coming weeks are Carla Jimenez of Inkwood Books in
Tampa, Florida; Mitch Kaplan
of South Florida and the Cayman Island's Books & Books; Arsen Kashkashian of Colorado's
Boulder Book Store; Valerie Koehler
of Houston's Blue Willow Bookshop; Collette
Morgan of Minneapolis' Wild Rumpus; and Matt Norcross of McLean & Eakin
Booksellers in Petosky, Michigan. The jury is chaired by ABA Board
member Cathy Langer of
Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver, Colorado.
The 2009 Indies Choice Book Award winners will be honored in May at
BookExpo America. An announcement of the finalists will be made in the
coming weeks. All booksellers at ABA member stores are eligible to
vote.
ABOUT AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS ASSOCIATION:
Founded in 1900, the American
Booksellers Association is a not-for-profit trade
organization devoted to meeting the needs of its core members --
independently owned bookstores with storefront locations -- through
education, information dissemination, business products and services,
and advocacy. ABA exists to protect and promote the interests of
independent retail book businesses, as well as to protect the First
Amendment rights of every American. The association actively supports
free speech, literacy, and programs that support local and independent
retail shops. A board of nine booksellers, representing thousands of
members, governs the Association. ABA is headquartered in Tarrytown,
New York.
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