Saturday, September 07, 2013

Books & Authors

Awards: Queensland Literary; Franklin Digital, BISG

Women authors dominated Australia's Queensland Literary Awards, winning 10 of the 11 categories, the Sydney Morning Herald reported, adding that the new prizes "replaced the Premier's Literary Awards in 2012, after the latter were cut by the Newman government." The complete list of winners is available here.

"Women's writing has always struggled to get the same coverage as men, to get the same space in review pages in newspapers," said Kristina Olsson, whose book Boy, Lost won the nonfiction category. "I think it's just people opening their eyes and realizing what we're doing, which is lots of good stuff."

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The newest winners of the Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards, sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association, are:

E-Books
Gold: Tony Northrup's DSLR Book: How to Create Stunning Digital Photography by Tony Northrup (Mason Press)
Silver: Betty White: The First 90 Years by Andrew E. Stoner (Blue River Press)
You Should Only Have to Get Rich Once: For Entrepreneurs by Russell E. Holcombe (Holcombe Financial)

Enhanced E-Books
Gold: Great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings: The Musée d'Orsay by Charles F. Stuckey (Artepublishing)
Silver: Tailwinds: Adventures of a Young Aviator by Dan Poynter (Para Publishing)
Twas the Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore (Grafton and Scratch Publishers)
The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Great Company by Steve Blank and Bob Dorf (K & S Ranch)


The Book Industry Study Group has announced a winner and shortlists for its first annual BISG Industry Awards, which will be presented at BISG's annual meeting September 27 in New York City.

Wendell Lotz, v-p, metadata, Ingram Book Group, has won the lifetime achievement award.

Friend of the Industry shortlist:

Tom Clarkson, distribution standards consultant, Cumberland Systems Review Group
Phil Madans, director of publishing standards and best practices, Hachette Book Group USA
Mike Shatzkin, founder and CEO, The Idea Logical Company
Fran Toolan, founder and "chief igniter," Firebrand Technologies

Industry Innovation Award shortlist:

BookNet Canada
Daisy Consortium
Edelweiss (Above the Treeline)
Kobo


From Shelf Awareness

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