Digital Book Award Finalists Exemplify Publishing Excellence; Winners to Be Announced at Digital Book World Conference + Expo, Jan. 13 - 15

NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- What does excellence in digital publishing look like? Look no further than the finalists in the 2015 Digital Book Awards from Digital Book World, an online educational and news platform, and F+W, A Content + eCommerce Company. More than 50 titles, from publishers large and small from around the world, demonstrate publishing excellence and digital best practices. The winner in each of the categories will be named at the Digital Book Awards Gala on Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. during the Digital Book World Conference + Expo (DBW) in New York (@DigiBookWorld - #DBW15).

DBW takes place Jan. 13-15, 2015 at the New York Hilton Midtown. The conference is the largest event worldwide dedicated solely to the business of digital publishing. See conference.digitalbookworld.com for information on the event (early-bird registration rates are available) and the awards program.

"The Digital Book Awards are important for helping a young industry push boundaries, define best practices and set the bar for standards of excellence," says Gary Lynch, group publisher with F+W's design and publishing communities. "In the uncharted world of digital disruption, these award finalists are guiding the way to a successful and exciting future."

Founded in 2010, the Digital Book Awards encompass all forms of digital publishing that are available to consumers, including ebooks, enhanced ebooks and apps. The program is committed to showcasing and rewarding the innovative, creative work of authors, developers and publishers – quality titles that render beautifully across different devices and formats.

2015 Digital Book Award Finalists Include:

Ebook – Flowable: Adult Fiction
---An October Bride, HarperCollins Christian Publishing 
---Chinese Whispers, Open Road Integrated Media
---Diamonds In the Sky, booksBnimble
---Lunation, HarperCollins Publishers Australia
---Metaphysical Dog, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Ebook – Flowable: Adult Nonfiction
---Immigration, InterVarsity
---Teach Us To Want, InterVarsity Press
---The Hall: A Celebration of Baseball's Greats: In Stories and Images, the Complete Roster of Inductees, Little, Brown, and Company
---The Social Entrepreneur's Playbook Pressure Test, Plan, Launch and Scale Your Enterprise, Expanded Edition, Wharton Digital Press
---Women in Clothes, Penguin Group LLC, a Penguin Random House company

Ebook – Flowable: Children
---Benji Franklin: Kid Zillionaire, Capstone Young Readers
---Severn Suzuki and the Day She Silenced the World, Second Story Press
---The Staff of Serapis, Disney Publishing Worldwide
---You Choose: Scooby-Doo!: The Terror of the Bigfoot Beast, Capstone Young Readers

Ebook – Flowable: Reference/Academic
---Following in the Family Footsteps, APS Group Scotland on behalf of Historic Scotland
---Lessons Learned on the Audit Trail, The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation
---Scottish Scenic Routes, APS Group Scotland on behalf of Scottish Government

Ebook – Fixed Format/Enhanced: Adult Fiction
---Beneath a Marble Sky, McPherson, Beneath the Ink
---The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains (Enhanced Multimedia Edition), William Morrow/HarperCollins

Ebook – Fixed Format/Enhanced: Adult Nonfiction
---20 Ways to Track a Tiger, Wildlife Worlds-Adventures in Nature
---Egg: A Culinary Exploration of the World's Most Versatile Ingredient, Little, Brown, and Company
---Penny Chic: How to Be Stylish on a Real Girl's Budget, Little, Brown for Young Readers

Ebook – Fixed Format/Enhanced: Children
---Dr. Seuss's ABC: Interactive Edition, Penguin Random House
---How To Be A Grouch, Sesame Workshop
---LEGO Ninjago Character Encyclopedia, DK Publishing
---Virginia Wolf, Kids Can Press Ltd.

Ebook – Fixed Format/Enhanced: Reference/Academic
---Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, 5th Edition, Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier
---Introduction to Emergency Management, Butterworth-Heinemann, an imprint of Elsevier
---Study It - English as a Second Language Textbook Series, Connect School of Languages

App: Adult Fiction
---SHERLOCK: Interactive Adventure, HAAB Entertainment
---The Garden by Ishion Hutchinson, Rocket Chair Media
---The Hope We Seek by Rich Shapero, Too Far Media

App: Adult Nonfiction
---Incredible Numbers, Touchpress and Profile Books
---Notions+ Our Curious Culture of Consumption, 24 Notions, LLC
---The Blender Girl, Ten Speed Press
---The Mozart Project, Pipedreams Media

App: Children
---Epic!, Epic! app
---Jack and the Beanstalk, Nosy Crow
---Loose Strands, Darned Sock Productions
---Love, The App, Pablo Curti

App: Reference/Academic
---OpenStax College: Anatomy and Physiology, OpenStax
---Picasso: The Making of Cubism 1912-1914, The Museum of Modern Art

Transmedia
---The Chatsfield, Harlequin UK Ltd
---We Are Angry, Digital Fables

Education and Learning
---Booktrack Classroom, Booktrack
---Discovery Education Techbook Series, Discovery Education
---E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth, E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
---Field Trip Library, Maps.com
---Spotlight on Ancient Civilizations, Rosen Publishing

Ebook Cover Design
---Double Double, And Then Story Designers
---I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, The Secret Mountain
---The Mozart Project, Pipedreams Media
---Twice Upon A Time: Listening to New York, Atavist Books
---Yosemite: A Storied Landscape, 36 Views

The 2015 Digital Book Awards Gala will be hosted by Ira Wolfman, a publishing industry veteran, digital transformation specialist and president of POE Communications. The Digital Book Awards sponsor is Blurb (Blurb.com) and the Device Sponsor is Kobo (Kobo.com).

Visit conference.digitalbookworld.com to sign-up for DBW (early-bird registration rates are available), or e-mail [email protected] to enquire about attending, sponsoring or exhibiting.

About F+W, A Content + eCommerce Company
F+W is an enthusiast-focused Content and eCommerce company, serving 20 Million consumers annually via the Company's print portfolio, ecommerce stores, extensive online education programs, trade and consumer events, popular consumer catalog brands, nationally-broadcast TV programs and more, all in service of passionate niche communities of professionals. (fwcommunity.com)

About Publishers Launch Conferences
Publishers Launch Conferences, the Digital Book World Conference + Expo partner, is a comprehensive conference/education business that addresses the urgent needs of book publishing professionals around the world. The organization was founded by two highly-respected trade publishing veterans, Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch and PublishersMarketplace.com and Mike Shatzkin of The Idea Logical Company. Publishers Launch works closely with established players and institutions throughout the publishing world, to transition to prosperity in the era of new technology, players and paradigms. (publisherslaunch.com).

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