2018 DBW Award Winners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Digital Book World Announces the Winners of the 2018 DBW Awards
‘Galdo's Gift: The Boovie’ Receives Four Awards Total, Including Best Book (Overall)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 3, 2018) – Digital Book World announced the winners of the 2018 DBW Awards – including Best Book (Overall), Best Audio Book and Publisher of the Year, as well as 48 other key categories – during a ceremony at the #DBW18 conference on Oct. 2 in Nashville, Tenn. at the Music City Center. Award winners represent books in various categories, publishing tech innovations and leading technology companies, as well as industry professionals and authors.
“Digital Book World is honored to recognize best-in-class achievement across the wide world of publishing, and we’re thrilled to celebrate these distinguished award winners with the publishing and technology community,” said Digital Book World Executive Producer Bradley Metrock. “Congratulations to all of the award winners – we’re proud to showcase your work.”
One of the honorees, Galdo's Gift: The Boovie, received four awards total, including: Best Book (Overall), Best Book (Fiction), Best Book (Children's) and Best Book (Interactive Fiction). Galdo’s Gift is a hybrid book-movie for children.
During the ceremony, Digital Book World also inducted two industry veterans into DBW’s new Publishing Hall of Fame – Marie Dutton Brown and Len Edgerly, both of whom attended the event. Brown is the iconic editor and literary agent who successfully championed diversity in publishing over the course of her 50-year career, and Edgerly is the creator and host of The Kindle Chronicles, a podcast which has aired every week, without disruption, for more than a decade.
Winners of the 2018 Digital Book World Awards include:
Publisher of the Year
Dark Horse
Trade Publisher of the Year
Macmillan
Children's Publisher of the Year
Disney Publishing
Educational Publisher of the Year
A Book Apart
Corporate Publisher of the Year
NASA
Academic/Scholarly Publisher of the Year
Princeton University Press
Religious Publisher of the Year (Tie)
Kube Publishing
LifeWay
Independent Publisher of the Year
Milkweed Editions
Publishing Executive of the Year (Tie)
Jeff Bezos, Amazon
Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks
Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year
Matt and Melissa Hammersley, Novel Effect
Publishing Commentator of the Year
Joanna Penn, Author
The DBW Medal for Leadership in Diversity
Morgan Jerkins, Author
Innovation in Accessibility
Amazon Alexa
Best Mobile Application
Novel Effect
Best Alexa Skill (Publishing + Storytelling)
Short Bedtime Story, Webguild
Best Google Action (Publishing + Storytelling)
Storycastle
Best Use of Blockchain in Publishing Technology
Publica
Best Use of AR/VR in Publishing
Devar
Best Use of AR/VR in Storytelling
Supersaurs
Best Marketing Campaign
The President Is Missing (Bill Clinton, James Patterson)
Best Book Cover Art
Destruction of Man (Abraham Smith)
Best Use of Multimedia in Book Marketing
Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World (Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner and Rupert Stadler)
Best Use of Podcasting in Book Marketing
Macmillan
Best Use of Social Media in Book Marketing
7th Grade Revolution (Liana Gardner)
Best Use of Voice Assistants in Book Marketing
Simon & Schuster (Stephen King Library skill)
Best Use of Data in Publishing
Biblio / Virtusales
Best Agency Representation in Publishing
Susan Rabiner Literary Agency
Best Book (Overall)
Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)
Best Book (Fiction)
Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)
Best Book (Non-Fiction)
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jerkins)
Best Book (Anthology)
High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)
Best Book (Architecture)
Naturally Animated Architecture (Kevin Nute)
Best Audiobook
What Happened (Hillary Rodham Clinton)
Best Book (Business)
Hit Refresh (Satya Nadella)
Best Book (Children's)
Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)
Best Book (Economics)
Broken Pie Chart: 5 Ways To Build Your Investment Portfolio to Withstand and Prosper in Risky Markets (Derek Moore)
Best Book (Essays)
Feel Free: Essays (Zadie Smith)
Best Book (Fine Arts)
Why Bach? An Audio-Visual Appreciation (Daniel Brown)
Best Book (Health / Medical Science)
Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review, Third Edition: Fast Facts and Practice Questions (Maria T. Codina Leik)
Best Book (Horror)
Gilchrist: A Novel (Christian Galacar)
Best Book (How-To)
Final Cut Pro X 10.4 - How It Works (Edgar Rothermich)
Best Book (Inspirational)
Grace for the Unexpected Journey (Deborah Barr)
Best Book (Interactive Fiction)
Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)
Best Book (Mathematics / Science)
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl)
Best Book (Poetry)
The Carrying (Ada Limon)
Best Book (Politics)
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Michael Wolff)
Best Book (Religious)
Longing For Motherhood (Chelsea Patterson Sobolik)
Best Book (Science Fiction)
Artificial Condition (Martha Wells)
Best Book (Short Stories)
The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories (Fiza Pathan)
Best Book (Social Issues)
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jerkins)
Best Book (Technology)
Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World (Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner, and Rupert Stadler)
Best Book (Textbook)
CollegeScope (Human eSources)
Digital Book World (DBW) is the annual gathering of the wide world of publishing. Next year’s event will also take place in October (dates TBD) in Nashville – the new permanent home for the conference.
To learn more about Digital Book World, visit http://www.digitalbookworld.com. Follow Digital Book World on Twitter: @DigiBookWorld or via #DBW18 and #DBW19.
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About Score Publishing
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