BTW News Briefs

Posted Wednesday, Mar 2, 2011
PW Names Bookseller and Rep of the Year Finalists

Publishers Weekly has named the finalists for its 19th annual PW Bookstore and PW Rep of the Year awards, to be presented at BookExpo America in May.

A panel comprised of industry representatives and last year’s award winners will choose the 2011 winners, who will be announced by April 25.

PW’s Bookstore of the Year finalists are:

Rep of the Year finalists are:

  • John Eklund with Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, and the MIT Press
  • Rick Gallagher with Bookazine
  • Doni Kay with Penguin Young Readers Group
  • Bridget Piekarz with Random House
2011 PEN/Faulkner Award Nominees Announced

Five books published in 2010 have been named the finalists for the 2011 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction:

  • Jennifer Egan for A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
  • Deborah Eisenberg for The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg (Picador)
  • Jaimy Gordon for Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.)
  • Eric Puchner for Model Home (Scribner)
  • Brad Watson for Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives (W.W. Norton)

The announcement was made on Wednesday, March 2, by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

The winner, who will receive $15,000, will be announced on March 15Íľ the four finalists will receive $5,000 each. All five authors will be honored during the 31st Annual PEN/Faulkner Award ceremony at the Folger Shakespeare Library, located at 201 East Capitol Street, SE in Washington D.C. on Saturday, May 7.

Anthony Doerr Wins The Story Prize

The winner of the seventh annual Story Prize was announced on March 2 at an awards ceremony in Manhattan. Anthony Doerr accepted the prize for Memory Wall (Scribner), a book of six stories set in locales across the globe, each with memory as a key element. The other two finalists for The Story Prize were Yiyun Li (Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, Random House) and Suzanne Rivecca (Death Is Not an Option, W.W. Norton).

Before the winner was announced, all three authors read from their story collections and discussed their work with Story Prize Director Larry Dark. Doerr received a  $20,000 award and an engraved silver bowl. Li and Rivecca each received $5,000.

The Quarto Group Acquires Cool Springs Press

The Quarto Group has acquired Brentwood, Tennessee-based Cool Springs Press, effective March 1, 2011. The Cool Springs Press imprint will be part of the Quayside Publishing Group and will ship from the group’s distribution facility in Appleton, Wisconsin. Cool Springs Press publishes gardening and garden-related titles.

Quayside Publishing Group encompasses 11 imprints in addition to Cool Springs Press: Creative Publishing International, Fair Winds Press, Motorbooks, MVP Books, Quarry Books, Quiver, Rockport Publishers, Voyageur Press, Walter Foster, Zenith Press, and Book Sales.

Follett Announces Textbook Rental Solution for Indie College Stores

Follett Higher Education Group has announced the launch of a new online affiliate textbook rental solution for independently managed college bookstores this fall.

Follett noted that the new affiliate rental program would provide college stores with tools to implement branded marketing campaigns and would enable them to fully customize their online storefronts, including store maps, hours, and additional consumer information.

The program would allow students to search rentable textbooks by title and course through a customized online storefront that will use a proprietary pricing algorithm.

Follett began discussing this new option with independently managed stores at the CAMEX conference, which ended on Tuesday, March 1.

NPR Features Books to Film Preview

On her Monkey See blog, Rachel Syme, the books editor for NPR Digital, takes a look at the crop of films based on books coming out in 2011. Titles on the list include Jane Eyre, Water for Elephants, The Lincoln Lawyer, The Help, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, and more.

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