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12th October 2008

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Booksellers vie for Retail Awards

13.06.07 Graeme Neill

The SilverDell Bookshop and Borders' Matt Bridge are both in the running for the inaugural Peter Jones Award for Entrepreneurship in Bookselling, with The Book Depository, Books@Hoddesdon and Chapter One also competing for the £10,000 prize.

The award is a new category in the Bookseller Retail Awards, which take place on 20th September in London's National History Museum. The Bookseller received more than 100 entries for the 13 categories, with the shortlists unveiled today (see below).

Borders faces stiff competition from Blackwell's, Hughes & Hughes, Waterstone's and W H Smith to retain its Retail Chain of the Year title, while supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda will slug it out for the Martina Cole General Retailer prize. Eight indies are competing for the Bertram Independent Bookseller of the Year.

Six nominees are vying for the HarperCollins Award for Expanding the Retail Market: the Daily Mail Book Club, the Guardian/Book Marketing Society, the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Five Live Book of the Month, Tesco Recommended Summer Reads and Richard & Judy's Summer Reads 2006. Elaine Silverwood is also in the running for the Reader's Digest Manager of the Year category, along with Blackwell's Darrell Thrush-Denning, Borders' Nicky Boardman, and two Waterstone's managers: Chris Laister-Smith and Martin Latham.

Neill Denny, editor of The Bookseller and chair of the judging panel, said he was enormously impressed by this year's nominations. "What the shortlisted entries reveal is that the book world is changing fast, with books sold and promoted in new and increasingly imaginative ways. Supermarkets, internet retailers, high street book chains and independent bookshops are all adapting fast—the shortlist encompasses vibrant and lively bookselling throughout the market."

To make your table booking or for more information contact Sally Greetham on 020 7420 6028 (sally.greetham@bookseller. co.uk), or go to theBookseller.com/RetailAwards.

Nominees

The Nielsen BookNet Supply Chain Initiative of the Year
The Book Depository; Bertrams; Amazon.co.uk

The Peter Jones Award for Entrepreneurship in Bookselling
The Book Depository; SilverDell of Kirkham; Books@Hoddesdon; Matt Bridge, Borders; Chapter One

The Hachette Children's Retailer of the Year
The Works; Waterstone's; Borders; W H Smith High Street; Tesco; The Red House

Retail Chain of the Year
Blackwell's; Waterstone's; W H Smith; Hughes & Hughes; Borders

The Walker Books Children's Independent of the Year
Children's Bookshop; The Well Wisher Bookshop; Tales on Moon Lane; Seven Stories; Norfolk Children's Book Centre; The Golden Treasury

The Martina Cole General Retailer of the Year
Tesco; Sainsbury's; Asda

The Direct to Consumer Bookselling Company of the Year
Puffin Book Club; The Book Depository; Waterstone's; The Book People; Play.com; Amazon.co.uk

The Bertram Independent Bookseller of the Year
The Torbay Bookshop; Dulwich Books; Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights; Volumes; Books@Hoddesdon; Jaffé & Neale; The Watermill Bookshop; Blandford Books

The Reader's Digest Manager of the Year
Darrell Thrush-Denning, Blackwell's; Chris Laister-Smith, Waterstone's; Martin Latham, Waterstone's; Elaine Silverwood, Silverdell of Kirkham; Nicky Boardman, Borders

The Orion Marketing Campaign of the Year
The Works; Eason's; Blackwell; Borders; W H Smith High Street; Amazon.co.uk

The HarperCollins Award for Expanding the Retail Market
Daily Mail Book Club; The Guardian/Book Marketing Society; The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction; Five Live Book of the Month; Tesco Recommended Reads; Richard & Judy Summer Reads 2006

The Headline Bookselling Company of the Year
Awarded to the overall winner from the Retail Chain, General Retailer and Direct to Consumer categories

The Random House Group Award for Outstanding Contribution to Bookselling
Winner announced on the night

Graeme Neill Retail Awards