07-06-2022, 06:09 AM | #1 | |
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Costa and now Blue Peter
https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...er-book-awards
Are Book awards/prizes etc important any more or is there limited impact on literacy and 99.9999% of authors? See also controversy about Hugo award in recent years. Also is BBC & Guardian book publicity too agenda driven? Costa used to be Whitbread, the tied house brewing chain who founded Costa coffee chain and sold it to Coca-Cola. No surprise Coca-Cola dropped it. I was surprised the Blue Peter award is only 22 years old. Blue Peter is 64 years old, though not much like I remember it. Quote:
Every bookshop gives Children's books plenty of exposure. So do libraries which here are used more by children than adults. I think for under 8 to 10 the printed books are more important than ebooks. |
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07-06-2022, 10:27 AM | #2 |
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I didn't understand most of your post, to be honest. It felt like I was coming in to the middle of a conversation.
In the U.S. at least, the big children's fiction awards I'm aware of are Newbery and Caldecott awards. Those I think are important. Though marketing and, sadly, media tie-ins likely matter as much or more as far as sales go. |
07-06-2022, 01:51 PM | #3 | |
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07-07-2022, 07:10 AM | #4 | |
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