Frankfurt IeBAF Award Winners Announced October 10, 2001

By Planet eBook Editor
September 5, 2001 (Updated: October 9, 2001)

The International eBook Award Foundation (IeBAF) has announced the short list for its awards, to be held on the evening of October 10, 2001, at the Old Opera House, Frankfurt, during the Frankfurt Book Fair. The awards include the two Author's Grand Prizes of $50,000, which go to the best fiction and non-fiction eBook.

These awards feature a wider range of publishers than the past awards and included a focus on eBooks that exemplified the following aspects:

  • Writing quality and integrity
  • Publishing effort to reach new eBooks audiences, such as creativity, promotion and publicity effort
  • Technical (hardware or software) enhancements in the presentation and functionality of the content

Finalists for Fiction

  • Chris Adrian - Gob’s Grief (Broadway)
  • Alan Furst - The Kingdom of Shadows (Random)
  • Amitav Ghosh - The Glass Palace (Random)
  • Joyce Carol Oates - Faithless: Tales of Transgression (PerfectBound)
  • Barbara Schulgasser-Parker - Funny Accent (St. Martin’s)
  • Francois Taillandier - Intrigues (Editions 00h00)

Finalists for Non-fiction

  • Dwight Allen and William H. Cosby Jr.- American Schools: The $100 Billion Challenge (iPublish.com)
  • Paul Clayton.- Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (Electric eBook Publishing)
  • George Gilder.- Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (Free Press)
  • Steven Levy.- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government (Penguin Putnam)
  • David McCullough.- John Adams (S&S)
  • Eric Nisenson.- The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece (St. Martin’s)

The 'Best eBook Technology' is to be announced on the night of the awards. Submissions for the 'Best Children's eBook' remains open until 15, 2001 and will be presented at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair in April 2002.

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