Last chance to vote for Nielsen BookData NZ Booksellers Choice Award 2011

Nielsen BookData would like to announce the shortlist for the 2011 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers’ Choice Award.

This award is unique in that it acknowledges the key role booksellers play in supporting New Zealand writing and publishing.

Booksellers were asked to nominate the three books they have most enjoyed reading, selling and promoting during the past twelve months.  The award carries a prize of $NZ2500 for the winning author and all booksellers who nominate and/or vote enter a prize draw for a year’s free subscription to BookData Online.

 This year’s nominations are a great representation of topics that are dear to New Zealanders’ hearts.

The 2011 shortlist is:

	Annabel Langbein: The Free Range Cook by Annabel Langbein, published by Annabel Langbein Books (a division of International Culinary Institute Press Ltd)
	Classic: The Revival of Classic Boating in New Zealand by Ivor Wilkins, published by Random House New Zealand Ltd
	Hand me Down World by Lloyd Jones, published by Penguin Books NZ
	Rebel with a Cause by Ray Avery with Paul Little, published by Random House New Zealand Ltd

Vote for your favourite now
New Zealand booksellers are now asked to vote for their favourite book out the four shortlisted titles, and the winner will be announced at the Industry Awards Cocktail Evening to be held in Wellington on the 17th of July during the Booksellers NZ Conference.

In order to vote please email Martine Poiree with the title of your chosen book. Please note we allow one vote per bookshop and voting will close at 12 noon on Friday the 24th of June 2011.

We would like to thank all the booksellers who have taken the time to submit titles, a poster featuring the shortlisted titles will be on its way shortly to help you all promote those titles, no doubt increasing sales. We hope that our Nielsen BookScan service will be able to confirm the importance of this award and its benefit to New Zealand writing and publishing.

Vote for the Best of the Best
This year will see the announcement of the 15th winner  of this coveted award, and to mark this occasion we have decided to give you an extra chance to vote by asking you to vote for the Best of the Best.

Below is the list of the past winners, so start discussing this with your staff and vote for the book which you think should be the supreme winner, the ‘Best of the Best’, by including that title alongside your vote for this year’s award.

 1997 – Making Peoples by James Belich

1998 – Bateman New Zealand Historical Atlas edited by Malcolm McKinnon

1999 – The Vintner’s Luck by Elizabeth Knox

2000 – Take a Vine-ripened Tomato ... by Julie Biuso

2001 – Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame by Michael King

2002 – Curious Questions by Max Cryer

2003 – The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera

2004 – The Penguin History of New Zealand by Michael King

2005 – Tu by Patricia Grace

2006 – He’ll be OK; Growing Gorgeous Boys into Good Men by Celia Lashlie

2007 – Tramping in New Zealand; 40 of New Zealand’s Best Trips by Shaun Barnett

2008 – The Road to Castle Hill. A High Country Love Story by Christine Fernyhough with Louise Callan

2009 – Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life by Jill Trevelyan

2010 – The Wonky Donkey by Craig Smith and Katz Cowley