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Rated: 13+ · Book · Writing · #932976
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#774576 added February 11, 2013 at 1:17pm
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E-Book Awards: Are You Ready to Enter a Contest to Win One?

In pre-E-Book days, we respected the award-winners because we knew the awards by their titles: Pulitzer, Faulkner, Booker, Newberry, Edgar, award titles attached to major Publishers and magazines, etc.

Nowadays, I look at the offering of a book and the award-winner logo confuses me, especially if I have read the book and found it to be so-so or even below that. Funny, but there must be as many awards as e-books. I exaggerate, of course.

Curious, I ran a simple search and found out a few facts on why and how the awards are given.

Facts:

*Bullet* Most E-Book Awards have entry fees. around $70-150. This casts a different light on the process, and although I understand the cost problem, call me a liberal socialist all you want but I’m not comfortable with this.

*Bullet* What most of these awards can offer is exposure. Period. If-- with a one in a million chance--you’re lucky, some agent or publisher may come after you, as award sites alert the entrants; however, sometimes, this works, and hope is what writers must work with.

*Bullet* Unfortunately, a newly formed e-book publisher may have established an award for the publicity for itself rather than for the authors.

If you have a book you want to enter in an award-winning contest, it is a good idea to check the previous award winners, and better yet, read a few of the winning books.

If interested, here are the major award titles, most with websites.

*Bullet* Writers Digest Self-Published Book Awards
https://www.writersdigest.com/competitions/selfpublished

*Bullet* Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Books
https://www.hofferaward.com/HAbooks.html

*Bullet* eLit Awards
https://www.elitawards.com

*Bullet* Independent Publisher Book Awards
https://www.independentpublisher.com/ipland/IPAwards.php

*Bullet* EPIC’s eBook Awards
https://www.epicorg.com/competitions/epics-ebook-awards.html

*Bullet* Next Generation Indie Book Awards
https://www.indiebookawards.com

*Bullet* Next Generation Indie Book Awards
https://www.indiebookawards.com

*Bullet* Indies Choice Book Awards
http://bookweb.org/btw/awards/ICBA.html

*Bullet* The National Indie Excellence Book Awards
https://www.indieexcellence.com

*Bullet* Readers’ Favorite Annual Book Award Contest
https://www.readersfavorite.com

*Bullet* Kidwell-e Festival Ebook Awards (UK)
https://www.kidwellyefestival.com/ebook-awards.html

*Bullet* IndieReader Discovery Awards
http://indiereader.com/the-indiereader-discovery-awards-info

*Bullet* ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards

*Bullet* Dan Poynter’s Global E-Book Awards
http://globalebookawards.com

*Bullet* USA News Best Book Awards
http://www.usabooknews.com/2013usabestbookawards/2012usabestbookawards.html

In addition to all of the above, e-media magazines and some of the bigger print-book awards organizations (e.g. James Beard) are opening up an e-book category in their awards programs.

I wish best of luck to those of you who are brave enough to self-publish or publish in some way. Although you are already winners for tackling the craft of writing, may you all win! *Smile*



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