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21/11/2004
WH Smith ditches People's Choice Award
UK book retail outlet WH Smith is to drop its People's Choice Book Awards.
The high street bookshop will now focus on its long-running WH Smith Literary Award and the British Book Awards. The People's Choice Awards were launched in 2001 and the decision to discontinue it is thought to centre on cost.
"We have decided to consolidate our book award activities into fewer, more focused, initiatives that work hard for our customers and us," said a spokesperson for the company. "We will therefore be continuing our long-standing WH Smith Literary Award, now in its forty-sixth year, and sponsor the W H Smith Children's Book of the Year within the British Book Awards."
The WH Smith Literary Award started in 1959 and has a prize of stg£5,000. The next shortlist will be announced in January 2005 and the judges include John Carey - who will chair the panel - writer Lucy Hughes-Hallett and journalist and broadcaster Mark Lawson.
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