Awards

Carl Lennertz named NAIBA Legacy Award winner; Chronicle’s Jack Jensen to receive Jack D. Rittenhouse Award; Putumayo World Music enters digital market; Unbridled to be distributed by PGW; Facebook drops local deals business

USPS offers new direct mail service for retailers; BAM to buy 14 Borders leases; MBA to add “independent” to name; SIBA upgrades Circle of Sites; Thurber Prize finalists and Dayton Literary Peace Prize shortlist announced

Lawsuit filed against Apple and five agency model publishers; Borders given okay to auction name, website, leases; Amazon unveils Kindle Cloud Reader; Philip Levine named poet laureate; Sally Dedecker to direct BEA conference program; Sales rep Ann Wachur honored by NEIBA; PEN 2011 literary award winners announced

New Atlantic booksellers name sales rep of the year; Children’s books exempt from CPSIA testing requirements; Shelf Awareness widget promotes consumer publication and giveaway

Forbes: Publishers need to help bookstores become sustainable; New York Times notes quickening pace to paperbacks; Apple enforces iOS4 app guidelines;Comic industry presents 2011 awards; Man Booker longlist unveiled

NECBA publishes kids’ spring list and reviews; BA opposes Amazon acquisition of U.K. online bookseller; SIBA and Romance Writers of America announce award winners

Nebraska Book Co. files for bankruptcy protection; BEA names Industry Ambassador Award recipient; New Rules Project says publishers, not Amazon, should set book prices

ABFFE President Chris Finan will receive the 2011 Freedom to Read Foundation Roll of Honor Award at the American Library Association’s national conference in New Orleans on Friday, June 25.

Edelweiss adds Indie Next List icons; Lambda and MPIBA award winners announced; Random House Kids launches paperback imprints; SBA introduces mobile app for small business owners

On Tuesday, booksellers and the authors and publishers of more than 35 of the past year’s Indie Next List titles gathered for the 11th annual Celebration of Bookselling & Author Awards Luncheon, featuring the presentation of the 2011 Indies Choice Book Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards.