With marketplace-impact data of its winner to follow, the UK’s Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction names its 2024 shortlist at Cheltenham.
UK: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize’s 2024 Longlist
The Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction has released its 12-title 2024 longlist, with its shortlist expected from the jury on October 31.
Tiya Miles Wins Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize
Harvard’s Tiya Miles wins the Cundill History Prize’s top honor for ‘All That She Carried,’ a 2021 National Book Award winner.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize Names Its 2022 Finalists
Ada Ferrer, Tiya Miles, and Vladislav Zubok are this year’s finalists in the Cundill History Prize, a winner to be named December 1.
Canada’s $75,000 Cundill History Prize: 2022 Shortlist
The Cundill History Prize 2022 shortlist includes a current-year Pulitzer Prize winner among its eight titles from six publishers.
Awards: The UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction Jury Names Its 2022 Longlist
On International Women’s Day, the Women’s Prize for Fiction names 16 novels to its £30.000 longlist for 2022.
Ether for Authors: What’s Important in the Man Booker Debate?
This week’s buzz round-up looks at the controversial possible changes in the Man Booker Prize rules, New Zealand’s publishing decline, Frankfurt tips and more.
The Deal from Hell: A Cautionary Tale Every Publisher Should Read
Why is the new book “The Deal From Hell” universally important to the publishing business? It shows the ease with which moneymen incur debt and ruin companies.
Size Doesn’t Matter, At Least When it Comes to Book Awards
By Edward Nawotka While we were at the Frankfurt Book Fair, we ran a cover story on one of our Show Daily asking: “Does Size Matter?” The suggestion was that that the changes wrought by digital publishing have begun to the level the playing field between small and conglomerate publishers. Sure, sales volumes may never be equal, but when it …