Perseus Books Group has partnered with mobile technology company Incelligence to launch a handful of book-based reference products for mobile phones: The Wine Enthusiast Pocket Guide to Spirits; Quit: Read This Book And Stop Smoking; and Your Pregnancy Week by Week, in both English and Spanish versions. Incelligence’s distribution network includes such major carriers such as AT&T, Orange, SouthernLINC, T-Mobile, and Kajeet. They have a library of over 100 mobile apps. In awards, the Jerusalem Book Fair prize will be given to Haruki Murakami. French playwright Timothee de Fombelle’s TOBY ALONE won the UK’s Marsh award for children’s literature in […]
Awards
Borders Original Voices Winners
Borders announced the winners of their annual awards: FictionSteven Galloway’s debut novel, THE CELLIST OF SARAJEVO The awards committee called it “a haunting story of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people trying to find and retain their humanity in the midst of war and siege.” Non-fictionEric Weiner, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World Young Adult/Independent ReaderTanya Landman, I AM APACHE Picture BookAdam Rubin and illustrator Daniel Salmieri, THOSE DARN SQUIRRELS!
SFWA to Honor Victoria Strauss
Co-founder of the Writer Beware website (along with Ann Crispin) Victoria Strauss will be honored by Science Fiction Writers Association at their Nebula Awards with a special Service Award. Organization president Russell Davis comments, “Her work with Writer Beware has been invaluable to our members and the writing community at large, so I’m very pleased to offer her this recognition of her outstanding service.” Strauss says, “Ten years ago, when WB was just getting started, I could never have imagined how much we would accomplish and how far we’d come. Beginning as a two-person committee and a modest subsection of […]
The February 2009 Indie Next List
Cutting for Stone: A Novel by Abraham VergheseLittle Bee: A Novel by Chris CleaveThe Help: A Novel by Kathryn StockettThe School of Essential Ingredients: A Novel by Erica BauermeisterDog on It: A Chet and Bernie Mystery by Spencer QuinnThe Leisure Seeker: A Novel by Michael ZadoorianHotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: A Novel by Jamie FordAddition: A Novel by Toni JordanIrreplaceable: A Novel by Stephen LovelyHands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love by Myron UhlbergThe Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town that Raised Them by […]
The Most Reviewed Books and Imprints of 2008
It was a year of enormous upheaval in the world of newspaper book reviewing, and yet in many respects everything stayed exactly the same. As monitored by our Book Review Index, tracking full-length reviews in the nation’s most widely circulated newspapers, total reviews declined approximately 7.5 percent during the year, with 7,855 reviews tabulated in all. With the same astonishing regularity that we have statistically demonstrated in the past, book editors across the country worked very hard to come to the same conclusions as always. One out of every twelve full-length reviews (or 8.5 percent) went to books by Knopf. […]
Costa Winners Include Athill, 91
Recently given an OBE on the Queen’s annual honors list, Diana Athill has won the Costa Award for biography for SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END, a contemplation of the advantages and disadvantages of advanced age. The other category winners are: First NovelSadie Jones, The Outcast, scoops Novel Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture PoetryAdam Foulds, The Broken Word Children’sMichelle Magorian, Just Henry The overall book of the year winner will be selected from among the category honorees later this month. Guardian