The week of publishing awards continues as the Digital Book World Conference in New York City opened yesterday with the announcement of the Publishing Innovation Awards (PIAs), honoring the most innovative ebooks, enhanced ebooks and book apps in twelve categories. Jay-Z's name was among http://publishing.wpadmin.about.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=1253&message=1the winners--for his Decoded as best Transmedia Project (Random House)... And the complete list of 2012 Publishing Innovation Award winners are:
App - Comics/Graphic Novels
The Wormworld Saga, Robot Media
App - Fiction
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, Penguin USA
App - Juvenile
Cinderella App, Nosy Crow
App - Non-Fiction
The Magic of Reality for iPad, Random House
App - Reference/Academic
British Library 19th Century Historical Collection, Bibliolabs
Digital First Ebook
Desserts - Discover the dessert recipes 20 million home cooks picked as America's best, Allrecipes.com, Inc.
Enhanced Ebook
Eva Scrivo on Beauty, Atria Books/Simon & Schuster
Transmedia Project
Decoded by Jay-Z, Random House, Inc., Random House Publishing Group
Ebook - Children's
Five Little Pumpkins, HarperFestival/Zuuka
Ebook - Non-Fiction AAA Las Vegas eTourBook Guide, AAA
Ebook Reference/Academic
Meggs' History of Graphic Design, 5th Edition, John Wiley & Sons
Ebook Fiction
Brad Meltzer's The Inner Circle and Preston & Child's Cabinet of Curiosities, Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group
For more information about the awards criteria and judging, visit the Publishing Innovation Awards site.
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Yesterday, Monday January 23, 2012, the American Library Association (ALA) presented their Youth Media Awards, which recognized the top books, videos, and audiobooks for children and young adults published in 2011.
Among those honored were Newbery Medal recipient Dead End in Norvelt, written by Jack Gantos (Farrar Straus Giroux); Caldecott Medal recipient A Ball for Daisy, illustrated and written by Chris Raschka (Schwartz & Wade Books/ Random House Children's Books); and 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture Award winner Michael Morpurgo, author of the novel War Horse (the basis for the popular play and film).
Read about the ALA Youth Media Awards and read the complete list of 2012 award winners and honor books.
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Today, on the 203rd anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the Mystery Writers of America announced its nominees for the 2012 Edgar Allan Poe Awards.
The EdgarŽ Awards, which honor the best in mystery fiction, non-fiction and television published or produced in the prior year, will be presented at the 66th Annual MWA Gala Banquet on April 26, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, New York City.
The 2012 Grand Master, Martha Grimes as well as the 2012 Raven Award winners were announced in November; the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award will be presented at the Agents & Editors Party on Wednesday, April 25, 2012.
Read the complete list of 2012 Edgar Award nominees and other MWA honorees.
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Amazon.com's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, iBooks and mobile apps and all the content that's in between--e-books and digital publishing are changing the book landscape at a breakneck speed.
And, according to a survey by Digital Book World, 82% of book publishing executives are "optimistic" about the digital transition. To help pros understand the quickly moving transition, DBW is a "publishing centric" conference that offers hard data on the state of the book business as well as actionable, proven strategies for how editorial, marketing, production, design, sales, pricing, rights management, international partnerships, etc. - can capitalize on the new opportunities technology facilitates.
If you need to know about the changing e-book landscape, consider attending Digital Book World in New York City next week.
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