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Hachette UK has topped the shortlist league table for the 2012 Bookseller Industry Awards, the British book trade's premier event, with eight nominations. Hachette is closely followed by HarperCollins and the Pearson/Penguin group, both with seven nominations‚ and Random House, with six.
On the retail side, London-headquartered boutique chain Foyles will be going toe-to-toe with bookselling giant W H Smith, as both businesses picked up four nominations.
This year's instalment of The Bookseller Industry Awards‚ to be held at a gala event at London's Hilton, Park Lane on 14th May‚ will be the biggest in the event's history. Eighteen awards will be given out on the night, 17 Bookseller awards plus the Bookseller Association's Gerry Davies Award for lifetime services to bookselling.
Neill Denny, The Bookseller editor-in-chief and chair of the awards judging panel, said: "These are testing times for the book trade, but what we have seen demonstrated by the strength and depth of the shortlists is the talent, innovation and creativity the industry has in spades."
Penguin, Hodder & Stoughton, Vintage and HarperCollins are just four of the eight shortlisted publishers battling it out for the coveted Publisher of the Year gong.
Amazon, Foyles, W H Smith and Blackwell will vie for National Bookseller of the Year honours. Constable & Robinson and Faber & Faber lead independent publishers with three nominations each. Faber will attempt to defend its Independent Publisher of the Year crown, hoping to become the first indie since Quercus in 2007 and 2008 to win in consecutive years.
There are three brand new awards this year: Digital Strategy of the Year; Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year; and Library of the Year. The National Bookseller of the Year combines two previous awards: General or Chain Bookseller and Direct Bookselling Company.
Imprint and Editor of the Year, sponsored by the Publishing Training Centre (PTC)
Corsair, Constable & Robinson James Gurbutt
Voyager, HarperCollins Jane Johnson
Sceptre, Hodder & Stoughton Carole Welch
Icon Books Duncan Heath
Harvill Secker, Random House Liz Foley
Simon & Schuster Suzanne Baboneau
Granta Books Sara Holloway
Publisher of the Year
DK
Harlequin Mills & Boon
HarperCollins
Hodder & Stoughton
Pan Macmillan
Penguin
Simon & Schuster
Vintage Publishing
Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year
Bloomsbury Academic and Professional
Edward Elgar Publishing
Gale, Cengage Learning
Collins Education
Hart Publishing
Oxford University Press
Pearson
The Royal Society of Chemistry
Independent Publisher of the Year
Anova Books
Aurum Press
Constable & Robinson
Faber & Faber
Igloo Books
Osprey Group
The Folio Society
Titan
Digital Strategy of the Year
Nosy Crow
Harlequin Mills & Boon
Constable & Robinson
Faber & Faber
Lonely Planet
Penguin
Osprey
Kobo
W H Smith
Literary Agent of the Year
Caroline Sheldon Caroline Sheldon Literary Agency
Clare Conville Conville & Walsh
Jonny Geller Curtis Brown
Gordon Wise Curtis Brown
Maggie Hanbury The Hanbury Agency
Simon Trewin United Agents
Children's Publisher of the Year
DK
HarperCollins Children's Books
Penguin Children's Books
Random House Children's Books
Scholastic Children's Books
Simon & Schuster Children's Books
Usborne Publishing
Hachette Children's Books
Rights Professional of the Year, sponsored by the Frankfurt Book Fair
Mary Thompson HarperCollins
Jason Bartholomew Hodder
Andy Hine Little, Brown
Zosia Knopp Puffin
Tracy Phillips Simon & Schuster Children's Books
Publicity Campaign of the Year, sponsored by the PPC
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin/Anwen Hooson & Amelia Fairney (Riot Communications & Viking, Penguin)
How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran/Ed Griffiths (Ebury Press, Random House)
Before I Go To Sleep by S J Watson/Alison Barrow & Ben Willis (Transworld)
Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival/Preena Gadher & Liz Hyder (Riot Communications)
When God Was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman/Maura Brickell (Headline Review)
My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher/Nina Douglas (Orion)
Marketing Campaign of the Year, sponsored by Nielsen
The Night Circus Vintage Publishing
Lord of the Flies Faber & Faber
Room Pan Macmillan
When God Was a Rabbit Headline Publishing
I Partridge HarperCollins
World Book Day World Book Day
A Dance With Dragons HarperCollins
The Richard and Judy Book Club W H Smith
For Dummies: 20th Anniversary John Wiley
National Bookseller of the Year
Amazon.co.uk
Blackwell
Foyles Bookshop
W H Smith
Children's Independent Bookseller of the Year, sponsored by Walker Books
Octavia's Bookshop
Storytellers Inc
Children's Bookshop, Muswell Hill
Jarrold's Book Department
Seven Stories Bookshop
The Book Nook
Children's Bookseller of the Year, sponsored by Usborne
Foyles
Scholastic Book Fairs
The Works
W H Smith
Library of the Year
Edinburgh City Libraries/City of Edinburgh Libraries and Information Services
Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library/Norfolk County Library Service
Orkney Library & Archive/Orkney Library & Archive
Stockton Central/Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council
Wotton Fields Library, Northampton/Tribal Group PLC
Manager of the Year
Darrell Thrush-Denning Blackwell, Edinburgh
Rebecca Hart Foyles, Westfield, Stratford City
Rebecca Cameron Foyles Westfield London
Kristian Berggreen Kemptown Bookshop, Brighton
Sue Butterworth Young Bookseller of the Year, sponsored by HarperCollins.
Octavia Karavla Octavia's Bookshop
Tomas Kenny Kennys Bookshop
Katie Clapham Storytellers, Inc
Thomas Ogilvie The Mainstreet Trading Company
Cara Fielder Waterstones
Independent Bookseller of the Year, sponsored by Gardners Books
Chorleywood Bookshop Chorleywood
Dulwich Books London
Linghams Booksellers Heswall
St Ives Bookshop St Ives
The Bookshop Kibworth Kibworth
The Gutter Bookshop Dublin
The Mainstreet Trading Company St Boswells