Headline Books, Inc. has Seven Titles Named Finalist in National Best Book Award Competition
USA BOOK NEWS ANNOUNCES WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF THE NATIONAL “BEST BOOKS 2008” AWARDS
Simon & Schuster, Tarcher/Penguin, HarperCollins, Hyperion, St. Martin’s Press,
McGraw- Hill, Headline Books, Inc., John Wiley & Sons & Hundreds of Independent Titles Score Top Honors in the 5th Annual National “Best Books” Awards
LOS ANGELES – USABookNews.com, the premiere online magazine and review website for mainstream and independent publishing houses, announced the winners and finalists of THE NATIONAL “BEST BOOKS” 2008 AWARDS (NBBA) on October 20, 2008. Over 500 winners and finalists were announced in over 140 categories covering print and audio books. Awards were presented for titles published in 2008 and late 2007.
Jeff Keen, President and CEO of USABookNews.com, said this year’s contest yielded an unprecedented number of entries, which were then narrowed down to over 500 winners and finalists.
“It’s wonderful to compete with the larger publishing houses,” says Headline Books president, Cathy Teets. “Six of our seven Finalists in the competition this year are West Virginia authors, one is from Virginia, and they definitely rank with the best of the best.” Headline Books released twenty new titles in 2007 and will have nearly that many new releases by the end of this year.
Headline Books, Inc. was a major winner with seven of its titles named Award-Winning Finalist in the National Best Books 2008 Awards, sponsored by USA Book News:
Keen says of the awards, now in their fifth year, “The 2008 results represent a phenomenal mix of books from a wide array of publishers throughout the United States.
As an executive in the publishing PR and marketing industry and president and CEO of JPX Media, I wanted to create an awards competition that recognized books in their publication year rather than months after the original launch window. With a full publicity and marketing campaign promoting the results of NBBA, this year’s winners and finalists will gain additional media coverage for the upcoming holiday retail season.”
Winners and finalists traversed the publishing landscape: Simon & Schuster, Tarcher/Penguin, HarperCollins, Hyperion, St. Martin’s Press, McGraw-Hill, John Wiley & Sons, Headline Books, Inc. & hundreds of independent titles contributed to this year’s outstanding NBBA competition. Keen adds, “NBBA’s success begins with the enthusiastic participation of publishers and continues with our distinguished panel of industry judges who bring to the table their extensive editorial, PR, marketing, and design expertise.”
A complete list of the winners and finalists of the USABookNews.com National Best Books 2008 Awards are available online at USABookNews.com. Look for these award winning titles in your favorite bookstore, online at amazon.com and Headline Books titles are also available at www.headlinebooks.com, www.publisherpage.com, www.headlinekids.com.
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