Co-founder suspends support of Quills book awards

A corporate co-founder of the Quills, people’s choice book awards that were started three years and aimed to combine “populist sensibility” with “Hollywood-style glitz,” announced Monday it will “suspend” support.

Reed Business Information gave no reason for the decision and a company statement did not make it clear whether the awards had been placed on hiatus or ended permanently. A spokeswoman for Reed, which operates such publications as Variety and Publishers Weekly, declined to give any further details.