BTW News Briefs

Children's Choice Book Award Winners Announced

On May 13, the winners of the second annual Children's Choice Book Awards were announced by the Children's Book Council (CBC) in association with Every Child a Reader, Inc. (the CBC Foundation). More than 220,000 votes were cast by children via the Children's Book Week website at www.BookWeekOnline.com to choose the winners.

This year's Children's Choice Book Award winners are:

• Kindergarten to Second Grade Book of the Year: The Pigeon Wants a Puppy! (Mo Willems, Hyperion Books for Children/Disney Book Group)
  
  
• Third Grade to Fourth Grade Book of the Year: Spooky Cemeteries (Dinah Williams, Bearport Publishing)
  
  
• Fifth Grade to Sixth Grade Book of the Year: Thirteen (Lauren Myracle, Dutton/Penguin Young Readers Group)
  
  
• Teen Choice Book of the Year: Breaking Dawn (Stephenie Meyer, Little, Brown)
  
  
• Author of the Year: Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn, Little, Brown)
  
  
• Illustrator of the Year: Jon J Muth (Zen Ties, Scholastic Press)

The Children's Choice Book Awards program was created to provide young readers with an opportunity to voice their opinions about the books being written for them and to help develop a reading list that will motivate children to read more and cultivate a love of reading.

Publishing Triangle Honors 21st Annual Award Winners

On May 7, the 21st Annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2008, were presented in a ceremony in New York City. Martin Duberman was honored with the 2009 Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Among the winners announced last Thursday were:

• The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction winner was Andrea Weiss (In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain, University of Chicago Press)
  
  
• The Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction winner was Kai Wright (Drifting Toward Love, Beacon Press)
  
  
• The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction winner was Evan Fallenberg (Light Fell, Soho Press)
  
  
• The Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction winner was Alison Bechdel, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The complete list of winners is available at www.publishingtriangle.org.

Red Wheel/Weiser Adds Hampton Roads as Distribution Client

On June 1, Red Wheel/Weiser added Hampton Roads Publishing Company as a distribution client in an arrangement that Red Wheel president Michael Kerber said, in a statement, had the "added benefit of a joint operating agreement." The companies' combined efforts will operate primarily from Red Wheel's offices in Newburyport and San Francisco. Red Wheel/Weiser publishes under the Weiser Books and Conari Press imprints. The Red Wheel/Weiser Hampton Roads program will have an active backlist of over 1,200 titles.

Also part of this new partnership will be the current distribution clients of both companies, including Nicolas Hays, Ibis Press, Connections Book Publishing Company, Moment Point Press, Skinner House, Namaste Publishing, The Witches' Almanac, and Hierophant.

Columbia University Press to Move Fulfillment to Perseus

On May 8, Columbia University Press announced plans to close its warehouse facility in Irvington, New York, in the summer of 2009 and to outsource its fulfillment operations to Perseus Distribution, a division of Perseus Book Group.

In a statement, Columbia University Press said, "The collaboration with Perseus will strengthen the print program of the Press and allow it to accelerate growth of digital offerings -- not previously available through its operations -- for its 11 distribution partners, particularly for short run digital printing, print on demand, and a suite of delivery services for electronic books in multiple formats."

Columbia University Press said that it will continue to grow its core publishing operations, including its recently launched Columbia Business School Publishing imprint, and make them available in multiple formats.

The warehouse closure will result in the loss of approximately 25 jobs.