PW Bookstore of the Year Finalists
These five finalists for the PW Bookstore of the Year Award are representative of the times, as stores around the country explore new business models and ways to best serve their communities during the pandemic and beyond. Several stores are not for profit or have not-for-profit arms. One store is in the midst of expanding to a second location, while another figures out how best to add an artist retreat.
Word Up Community Bookshop/ Librería Comunitaria
The winner announcement will be live-streamed on Tuesday, May 25, 4:30–5 p.m. ET.
PW Rep of the Year Finalists
These five reps are from commission groups, a wholesaler, and one of the Big Five.
The winner announcement will be live-streamed on Tuesday, May 25, 4:30–5 p.m. ET.
Thank you to the awards judges
We appreciate the work of this year’s bookseller and sales rep awards judges.
PW Bookstore of the Year judges: Bob Barnett, Univ. of Texas Press; Rachel Geiger, Chronicle Books; Ruth Liebmann, Penguin Random House; John Mendelson, Candlewick Press; and Karen Torres, Hachette Book Group.
PW Rep of the Year judges: Ellen Barrett, Porter Square Books (Cambridge, Mass.); Lauren Nopenz Fairley, Curious Iguana (Frederick, Md.); Paul Hanson, Village Books & Paper Dreams (Bellingham, Wash.); and Alyson Turner and Janet Webster Jones, Source Booksellers (Detroit).
