The world's least necessary award for books, the Quills, will continue for a third year, though the process is being overhauled, reports the Associated Press.

This year, the general public will only be allowed to vote for the Book of the Year category; the other eighteen winners will be determined by votes of booksellers and librarians. Quills founder and chairman Gerry Byrne started that the purpose of this move was to "add to the credibility" of the winners.

The Quills are a joint project of the parent companies of NBC (broadcaster of the cermony) and Publishers Weekly, and were started in 2005 with the mission of "livening up" literary awards.

Nominees will be announced June 2nd, and the winners in all categories except Book of the Year will be released September 10th. Voting for the Book of the Year will follow -- it's unclear whether the voters will be required to choose from among the eighteen category winners or can choose other nominees or even un-annointed books -- until October 10th, and the gala TV show will inevitably follow on October 27th.

According to the official site, books are nominated either by being given a starred review...by PW, or by appearing on the bestseller lists...published by PW, or by being a special selection of the Committee...made up of PW editors. Once PW has decided what books are nominated, they'll send it to the voters -- "over 6,000 invited [by PW] booksellers and librarians" -- who will decide which PW books will win their PW categories for the PW awards.