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Digital Book World announced today its 2nd Annual Publishing Innovation Awards and the founding of the QED, a standard for excellence in digital book production.
Recognizing innovation, usability, user experience and quality design, the Publishing Innovation Awards celebrate excellence in digital publishing in 14 categories, up from 5 last year. New categories highlight ebooks, enhanced ebooks,
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Related: Last Year’s Publishing Innovation Award Winners | Register for This Year’s PIA Awards Luncheon
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Digital Book World Conference + Expo:
Publishing Innovation Awards Finalists Announced
2013’s most innovative ebooks, enhanced ebooks, book apps and transmedia projects hail from a cross section of publishers proving creativity is not dependent on deep resources. The world’s favorite cartoon
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Last Thursday, the Publishing Innovation Awards (PIAs) announced that major ebook retailers Barnes & Noble, Sony, and Kobo have agreed to join the awards as supporting partners. Senior representatives at each of the retailers will join the advisory board for the Awards, providing key insight into the framing, judging, and evolution of the PIAs, as
1561 readersFrom the press release: The Publishing Innovation Awards will recognize the best ebooks and book apps based on their merits in the areas of origination, development, production, design, and marketing. To celebrate the launch of the awards, organizers at Digital Book World 2011 Conference + Expo will present the inaugural Publishing Innovation Awards in five
3287 readersDan Poynter has opened submissions for his global eBook awards. Now through June 30, 2011 (midnight, Pacific Time) you can enter your book in the awards. eBooks must have been released anytime before July 1, 2011.
The Global eBook Awards are open to a...
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The Rita awards ceremony, climaxing the annual Romance Writers of America convention, is closer to the glitzy Academy Awards than to the bookish solemnities of the National Book Award. Conducted in vast auditoriums on a stage flanked by jumbo-trons, these events are almost as glamorous as their Hollywood counterparts, and the tension and drama leading
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Digital Book World announced today that Constellation, the leading digital platform for independent publishers, has been named exclusive global sponsor of the Publishing Innovation Awards. The Publishing Innovation Awards, now in their second year, celebrate the best in e-books, enhanced e-books, and book apps, and will be awarded at the Digital Book World Conference +
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By Anne Kostick, Partner, Foxpath IND
Actor Mark Rylance, in accepting his Tony Award last night, quoted Louis Jenkins’s prose poem, “Walking Through a Wall.” Why did it immediately remind me of user experience design? Maybe because just last week the practitioners of excellent UX attained a new level of recognition at another, far less glitzy
1339 readersOne of the best ways for a young organization to quickly add some legitimacy to its brand is to create an industry award, and the indie publishing website IndieReader, launched in 2009, has done just that. Its first annual IndieReader Discovery Awards is now accepting submissions through February 29th, 2012, with winners announced next June.
3133 readersRecognizing and honoring excellence in ebook and book app design and production.