The Digital Book Awards recognize innovation, creativity and excellence in all aspects of digital book publishing. Each year, award winners and finalists in 15 categories demonstrate fresh thinking, inspired design, and bold technology integration, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in this constantly evolving publishing arena.
The awards encompass all forms of digital publishing that are available to consumers as ebooks, enhanced digital books and apps, to showcase and reward the work of authors, developers and publishers.
Winners of the 2014 Digital Book Awards will be announced at a gala held in New York City and hosted by LeVar Burton, actor and co-founder of Reading Rainbow, on Monday, January 13, 2013.
Finalists by category are listed below. Winners will be highlighted as they are announced.
Ebook Flowable – Reference/Academic
CAE Strategic Relationships: Building Rapport with the Executive Suite, The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation
Scotland’s Marine Atlas, On Behalf of the Scottish Government by APS Group Scotland
Ebook Fixed Format/Enhanced – Adult Fiction
Collected, Donna M. Thompson
Mistress of France, Emma Boling, Beneath the Ink
Rain Shadow, Rebecca H. Carrer
App – Children
The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Scholastic
Axel’s Chain Reaction, Allison Pomenta
COWZAT!, Colour Me Play
Goodnight Moon Storybook App, Loud Crow Interactive
Little Red Riding Hood, Nosy Crow
App – Illustrated/Comics Graphic Novels
Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love and Tattooing, HarperCollins /Harper Design
The Journey, Alta Editions
App – Reference/Academic
The Animator’s Survival Kit, Faber and Faber
Disney Animated, Touch Press/Disney
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers, Yale University Press
On the High Line, 36 Views
Ebook Fixed Format/Enhanced – Children
Alicewinks: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Walrus & Carpenter Productions LLC
First Time on a Plane, Parragon
The Man with the Violin, Annick Press Ltd.
Seahorses & Pipefish, Dive in Your Imagination
Ebook Fixed Format/Enhanced – Reference/Academic
American Sign Language (Enhanced), Thunder Bay Press
Cracking the GRE: Interactive Prep & Review for the GRE Exam, Random House Children’s Books and The Princeton Review
Introduction to Food Engineering, Elsevier/Academic Press
Julius Caesar: The Shakesperience, Sourcebooks
Language of Medicine 10th Edition, VitalSource ® Edition, Elsevier/Saunders
The Making of Star Wars, Ballantine Group
Ebook Fixed Format/Enhanced – Illustrated/Comics/Graphic Novels
A Long Way Away/Along A Long Road, Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers
The World Atlas of Wine iPad Edition, Octopus Publishing Group
App – Adult Fiction
George R.R. Martin’s A World of Ice and Fire, Random House
Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus, Noble Beast
The Metamorphosis for iPad, Rocket Chair Media
App – Adult Non-Fiction
The Pocket Scavenger, Penguin Group (USA)
Psychometry, Carol Golemboski Ltd.
Ready, Set, Baby! The Watch and Learn Guide to Baby’s First Year, Open Air Publishing and Inkling Publishing
Digital Cover Design
Breaking Bad: Alchemy, Sony Pictures Television
A Long Way Away/Along A Long Road, Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers
The Persian Square, Davar Ardalan
A Shiver of Sharks, Little Bahalia Publishing
Transmedia (Any Format)
The 39 Clues, Scholastic
The Descent, Kobo
The Niantic Project: Ingress, Niantic Labs at Google
The Ruptured Sky, TEACH Magazine
Spirit Animals, Scholastic
The Digital Book Award for Inkling Habitat
The Louvre: All the Paintings, Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers and Inkling Publishing
Modernist Cuisine at Home, The Cooking Lab
Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
The New Sunset Western Garden Book, Oxmoor House
The Way of Taiko, Stone Bridge Press
Ebook Flowable – Adult Fiction
Cerberus: Book 1 of Parish, BookRix GmbH & Co. KG
Eversea: A Love Story, Natasha Boyd
Ebook Fixed Format/Enhanced – Adult Non-Fiction
Henri, le Chat Noir: The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat, Ten Speed Press
Isa Does It, Little, Brown and Company
Pizza Pilgrims, HarperCollins
DIGITAL BOOK AWARD CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
Ebook Flowable—These files are made in ePub and/or KF8 without utilizing features such as audio, video, HTML5, Javascript, fixed layout, pop-outs, etc., in order to work on a wide variety of e-reading devices.
Ebook Fixed format/Enhanced—These files utilize any of the enhanced ePub specifications and/or any (or all) of the full range of KF8 specifications, such as audio, video, HTML5, Javascript, fixed layout, pop-outs, etc.
App—If the title must be downloaded from an App Store, and/or the ebook title can only be read on an app platform, it’s an app. It can be a native app or a web-based app. Files formatted using ePub and KF8 specifications are not considered apps.
Transmedia—A transmedia project is a work that uses multiple platforms and formats to tell a single story or offer a complete experience. Each medium makes its own contribution to the whole. An example would be an enhanced ebook/multiplayer computer game/ web-video series.
Inkling Habitat—If the book was created using the Inkling Habitat development platform and is made available through the Inkling publishing platform it is eligible for consideration in this special award category. Inkling titles may also be submitted to the appropriate regular category in a separate entry form.
DIGITAL BOOK AWARDS JUDGING CRITERIA
Innovation – Entries will have been conceived and executed in novel ways. Innovative titles look past their print counterparts and approach their platform natively by pushing the bounds of what has been done before.
Design – Well-designed entries display their content clearly and communicate their message effectively. Usability – Entries function as intuitively as possible and the features and/or layout are accessible for all readers to the extent possible.
Content – Excellent digital content enriches, enlightens, entertains and satisfies readers; it delivers on its promise.
Consistency – The title shows appropriate information hierarchy and font treatments throughout. In functionality and layout there are no unexpected surprises or glaring errors. Everything works, and works well.
Excellence – Award winners will have obtained the highest QED rating.
For more information or to enter the 2015 Digital Book Awards, email tara.johnson@fwmedia.com.
The Digital Book Awards also accords “QED” designation to titles that qualify through the first-ever independent, third-party assessment of an ebook’s basic production standards. QED stands for “Quality, Excellence, Design” in ebooks. To earn the QED standard for excellence, ebooks must pass muster in a multi-format, multi-platform 13-step quality assurance (QA) process. Ebook entries are thoroughly and independently vetted on devices from mobile to eInk to tablet. The QED is a reader-centric award that lets ebook consumers know that their purchase will render correctly, no matter where or how they choose to read.
2014 QED Designees are as follows:
29th Street Publishing, Emily Books Reader36 Views, On The High LineAAA Publishing, AAA Top Destination Guide Las Vegas via AAA Mobile App
AAA Publishing, AAA Top Destination Guide Orlando via AAA Mobile App
AAA Publishing, AAA Top Destination Guide New York via AAA Mobile app
Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, Molecular Biology 2nd Edition
Allison Pomenta, Axel’s Chain Reaction
Alta Editions, The Journey
American Dental Association, The ADA Practical Guide to Dental Office Design
Anneka Manning & OpenBook Creative, Bake Eat LoveAnnick Press Ltd., The Man with the Violin
Artepublishing, Key Documents in American History: The National Archives
Auryn, Inc., Alphabet Animals
Auryn, Inc., The Chalk Box Story
AuthorHouse, I Remember Me
B&H Publishing Group, Audrey Bunny
B&H Publishing Group, The Big Picture Interactive Bible Storybook
Balcony 7 Media and Publishing, Dreamy Drums, Trouble in Paradise
Balcony 7 Media and Publishing, Gansevort: The King and His Court
Balcony 7 Media and Publishing, Isle of Mystery: Eyes of The King
Ballantine Group, The Making of Star Wars
Bayard / Aquafadas, J’aime Lire Store
Berrett-Keohler Publishers, co-published with AARP Books, Life Reimagined, Enhanced Edition
Bilineata Publishing & El Áncora Editores, The Lake of Stones
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers and Inkling Publishing, The Louvre: All the Paintings
Bompiani, Storia delle terre e dei luoghi leggendari
BookRix GmbH & Co. KG, Cerberus: Book 1 of Parish
BookRix.com, Sinkhole
Cambridge University Press and Cambridge English Language Assessment, Complete IELTS Student’s Book Bands 4-5
Capstone Press, Can You Survive the Titanic?: An Interactive Survival Adventure
Carol Golemboski Ltd. via Apple, Psychometry
Carson-Dellosa Publishing, Intense! Machines
Catto Creations, LLC, I Love to Color, Play, & Learn
Chronicle Books, LLC, Steam Train, Dream Train
Chronicle Books, LLC, True Blood: Steve Newlin’s Field Guide to Vampires
Clarkson Potter, Michael Symon’s 5 in 5: 5 Fresh Ingredients + 5 Minutes = 120 Fantastic Dinners
Clarkson Potter, Try This at Home: Recipes from My Head to Your Plate
Coliloquy, LLC, Hard Listening: The Greatest Rock Band Ever (of Authors) Tells All
Colour Me Play, COWZAT!
Comcast NBCUniversal, His Dream, Our Stories: The Legacy of the March on Washington
Corwin, Untangling the Web Interactive eBook
CotCotCot-apps.com, All my Love (for You)
Crown, The Fast Metabolism Diet
Cupcake Digital Inc., Sparky’s Birthday Surprise
Cupcake Digital Inc., Wubbzy’s The Night Before Christmas
Davar Ardalan, The Persian Square
Dive Into Your Imagination, Seahorses & Pipefish
DK, The Philosophy Book
Donna M. Carrer, Collected
Dorling Kindersley, DK Peekaboo! Read-Along Stories Powered by FamLoop
Duke University Press, We Are the Face of Oaxaca: Testimony and Social Movements
Ebury Publishing, Self Belief: The Vision
Editora Saraiva, Código de Processo Civil e Legislação Processual em Vigor
Elsevier, Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy
Elsevier, Immunology
Elsevier, Principles of Medical Biochemistry
Elsevier/Academic Press (imprint), Introduction to Food Engineering
Elsevier/Saunders, The Language of Medicine 10th Edition, VitalSource® Edition
Emma Boling, Beneath the Ink, Mistress of France
Empowerment Productions LLC, EggMania – Where’s the Egg in Exactly?
EngageLab, Bridging Book
Faber and Faber, The Animator’s Survival Kit
FableVision, National Writing Project, Reading is Fundamental, Water Wonders
FamLoop, Oz Tales StoryGame by FamLoop
Getty Publications, Looking East: Rubens’s Encounter with Asia
Gräfe und Unzer Verlag, Die Welt in Lafers Küche – Fleisch und Geflügel
Gräfe und Unzer Verlag, Indische Küche in London – Special Edition
Gypsy House, Tampa, Florida, How Do We Love?
Hachette Book Group, Rose Kennedy’s Family Album: From the Fitzgerald Kennedy Private Collection 1878-1946
Hachette Book Group, Safe Haven
Hachette/Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli and Snake Hill
HarperCollins, Pizza Pilgrims
HarperCollins, Ecco, Defending the Title (Enhanced e-Book)
HarperCollins, Ecco, Fortitude (Enhanced e-Book) iBA
HarperCollins, Harper Perennial, The Things They Cannot Say (Enhanced Edition)
HarperCollins, William Collins, Catastrophe 1914
HarperCollins, William Morrow, Relish (Enhanced Edition) iBA
HarperCollins/Harper Design, Go Big or Go Home: Taking Risks in Life, Love and Tattooing
HHS Administration on Children, Youth and Families/US Children’s Bureau, The Children’s Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood
Hudson Whitman/ Excelsior College Press, N21- Nursing in the 21st Century – A Mobile Journal
Hullabalu, Pan: The Fearless Beribolt
Infonouveau, A Fox in Paris
IntelliVen, Manage To Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World
InterVarsity Press, One Bible Many Versions
InterVarsity Press, Playing God
InterVarsity Press, The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
John D. Cruickshank, Life after Life: The Story of Wayne Ford
John D. Cruickshank, Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., Shock: An investigation into the startling comeback of electroconvulsive therapy
John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd., Marketing: iStudy Version 2
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand, The Complete Teach Like a Champion
Kaplan Publishing, Kaplan Mobile Prep for the NCLEX-RN® + 2 Practice Tests
Kazap Corp, The Elements Club
Kindoma Inc., Kindoma Storytime
Kisbo, Find Me
Knopf, Stay, Illusion
Kobo, The Descent
Leviathan (self-published), Shadowlands
Light Publications, Cinderella Spinderella
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Moore’s Clinically Oriented Anatomy
Little Bahalia Publishing, A Shiver of Sharks
Little, Brown and Company, Isa Does It
Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers, A Long Way Away/Along A Long Road
Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers, The Dark
LivoBooks, Doki Explores Space
LivoBooks, Welcome to the Vampire’s Lair … If You Dare!
LivoBooks, Zuly Playing in the Backyard
Logos Bible Software, Faithlife Study Bible
Loud Crow Interactive, Goodnight Moon Storybook App
Lucky Penny Press, Pablito and the Speckled
McLellan Interactive Publishing, One In A ThousandMegapops, Millie’s Crazy Dinosaur AdventureMFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Musical Instruments (MFA Highlights)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Verso: Unveiling the Backstory
MOODBOOKS, The Last Extinction
Muse Clio, LLC, Magic Stories of the Metropolitan Museum
Music Together®, One Little Owl
Natasha Boyd, Eversea: A Love Story
National Geographic Books, Devoted: 38 Extraordinary Tales of Love, Loyalty, and Life with Dogs
National Geographic Kids, Just Joking
Navitas, How Not to Run Your Business: A Guide for the Positive Thinker
New World Library, The Sexy Vegan Cookbook
Niantic Labs at Google, The Alignment: Ingress
Niantic Labs at Google, The Niantic Project: Ingress
Noble Beast, Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus
Non Sequitur Press, Assured Destruction Series
Nosy Crow, Little Red Riding Hood
Nosy Crow, Rounds: Parker Penguin
NSTA Press (National Science Teachers Association), Interdependence of Life
Oceanhouse Media, Clam-I-Am!: All About the Beach
Octopus Publishing Group, The World Atlas of Wine iPad Edition
On behalf of The Scottish Government by APS Group Scotland, Scotland’s Marine Atlas
Open Air Publishing and Inkling Publishing, Ready, Set, Baby! The Watch and Learn Guide to Your Baby’s First Year
Oxford University Press, Oxford Learner’s Bookshelf
Oxford University Press, Q: Skills for Success Level 1 Listening and Speaking eBook
Oxmoor House, Cooking Light Lighten Up, America!
Oxmoor House, The New Sunset Western Garden Book
Parragon, First Time on a Plane
Penguin, Chasing the Sun Deluxe
Penguin, Christina Pirello’s Wellness 1,000 Deluxe
Penguin, Kelley Armstrong’s Cainsville Files
Penguin, Of Mice and Men: Teacher’s Deluxe Edition
Penguin, Poems by Heart from Penguin Classics
Penguin, Traveling Sprinkler Deluxe
Penguin Books NZ Pty Ltd, Hairy Maclairy from Donaldson’s Dairy
Penguin Group (USA), The Pocket Scavenger
Play Creatividad, The Guardian of Imagination HD
PlayDate Digital, My Little Pony: Party of One
Random House Children’s Books and The Princeton Review, Cracking the GRE: Interactive Prep & Review for the GRE Exam
Random House Digital, Barbie Color, Sparkle and Style
Random House Digital, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Random House Publishing Group, George R. R. Martin’s A World of Ice and Fire
Random House Publishing Group, Night Film Decoder
Random House Reference, Storied Sips: Evocative Cocktails for Everyday Escapes, with 40 Recipe
Real World Change Management, LLC, Change Management in the Real World
Rebecca H. Carrer, Rain Shadow
Rizzoli, Ragazza entra in un bar
Rocket Chair Media, The Metamorphosis for iPad
ROSINANTE&CO, TAVS
Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, Cultural Anthropology 2nd Edition
Samfundslitteratur, Business Behavior – The International Guide
Scholastic, Spirit Animals
Scholastic, The Adventures of Captain Underpants iPad App
Scholastic Inc., The 39 Clues
Scholastic Media, Clifford’s BIG Birthday
Scholastic New Zealand, Ransomwood
Seal Press, Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Mind-Body Makeover
Simon & Schuster, Gallery Books, Making It: A Novel of Madison Avenue
Skywriter Media, The Ketchup Monster
Slim Cricket, The Little Witch at School
Sony Pictures Television, Breaking Bad: Alchemy
Sourcebooks, Julius Caesar: The Shakesperience
Sourcebooks, Put Me In The Story – Personalized Books
Sourcebooks, Stuff You Missed in History Class: A Guide to History’s Biggest Myths, Mysteries, and Marvels
Sprigleaf, Scandalous Brides
Stanford University, Laboratory protocols
StarWalk Kids Media, Between the Covers
StarWalk Kids Media, Critter Sitters
StarWalk Kids Media, The Impossible Shrinking Machine
StarWalk Kids Media, Water Stories: Adventures Afloat
Stone Bridge Press, The Way of Taiko
TEACH Magazine, The Ruptured Sky
Teachers Created Materials, Kids Learn Sight Words 1-300
Teachers Created Materials, Sing and Learn Nursery Rhymes
Telegram Studios, Det kommer aldrig va över för mig
Telegram Studios, Don’t Say a Word
Ten Speed Press, Henri, le Chat Noir: The Existential Musings of an Angst-Filled Cat
The Cooking Lab, Modernist Cuisine at Home
The Dini Group, Ltd, Workflow: Beyond Productivity
The IIA Research Foundation, Sawyer’s Guide for Internal Auditors
The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation, CAE Strategic Relationships: Building Rapport with the Executive Suite
The James Gang, Banned on the Hill
The New Book Press, LLC, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Thunder Bay Press, American Sign Language (Enhanced)
Thunder Bay Press, Anatomy 360 (Enhanced)
Time Home Entertainment, LIFE The Day Kennedy Died
Toronto Star Newspapers, That Polio Season
Touch Press/Disney, Disney Animated
Twin Sisters IP, LLC, Five Monkeys
University of Chicago Press, University of Chicago Spanish English Dictionary App
Vidya Gamer, LLC, Crowded Fiction: Jackson’s Choice
Vook, Composing Price
Vook, We, Haiku
Wake Forest University Digital Publishing, Pearls around the Neck
Walrus & Carpenter Productions LLC, Alicewinks: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Wasabi Productions, Gorilla Band 3D Story Book
Wineology Press, Nose, Legs, Body! Know Wine Like The Back of Your Hand
Wired Ballywho, Kingdom of Hamelot Series III: Rise of the Dark Kingdom
Wolters Kluwer Law and Business, Evidence: Practice, Problems, and Rules
Yale University Press, Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
ZoomerMedia Limited, The Zoomer Philosophy Volume 1