Awards

On Wednesday, October 13, the 20 finalists for the 2004 National Book Awards were announced by Garrison Keillor at the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota. The winners in each of four categories -- Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature -- will be announced on November 17 at a ceremony at the Marriott Marquis in New York City to be hosted by Keillor. Each winner will receive $10,000 and a bronze statue; each finalist will receive a $1,000 cash award and a bronze medal. The finalists are:

Google Launches Online Book Search Biz On Wednesday, October 6, Google announced the launch of a new search technology designed to help publishers sell books online, as reported by Reuters. The company's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, plan to hold a press conference on Thursday, October 7, at the Frankfurt Book Fair, which Reuters described as "an important showcase if the Internet search engine is to recruit the heavyweights of the book publishing industry."

Publishers and Authors File Suit Against Treasury Department

Man Booker Prize for Fiction Shortlist Announced The six shortlisted books for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2004, announced this week, are Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor, (Kwela Books); The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall (Faber & Faber); The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst (Bloomsbury USA); Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (Random House); the June 2004 Book Sense Pick The Master by Colm Toibin (Scribner); and I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward (Vintage).

The New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Association (NAIBA) recently announced the winners of the 2004 NAIBA Book Awards. The award honors books that are written by authors from the region (New York to Virginia) or that take place in the region. The winners are:

2004 Hugo Winners Announced The 2004 Hugo Awards, honoring excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy, were presented at the Worldcon Convention on Saturday, September 4. Among this year's winners were:

On September 1, the Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA) announced the winners of the 2004 Great Lakes Book Awards, which will be presented at a luncheon on Friday, October 8, during the GLBA fall trade show in Dearborn, Michigan. This year, the association split the children's award into two categories: picture book and chapter book. This year's Great Lakes Book Award winners are:

On September 1, the Great Lakes Booksellers Association (GLBA) announced the winners of the 2004 Great Lakes Book Awards, which will be presented at a luncheon on Friday, October 8, during the GLBA fall trade show in Dearborn, Michigan. This year, the association split the children's award into two categories: picture book and chapter book. This year's Great Lakes Book Award winners are:

The July issue of Building Blocks, the newsletter of the Association of Booksellers for Children (ABC), presented a column entitled "Pannell Best Ideas in Children's Bookselling." The column featured tips for booksellers by the winners of, and nominees for, the 2004 Lucile Micheels Pannell Awards, which are presented annually by the Women's National Book Association (WNBA) to recognize one general bookstore and one children's specialty store that have excelled at creatively bringing books and children together and inspiring children's interest in books and read