Judges & Judging
Instructions for Judges
Call for Judges
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Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook awards needs judges. They are overwhelmed with entrants in the 73 categories. Just select your favorite category and you will get ebooks to read and evaluate.
Contests are more successful when there are several judges per category. Judges aren’t rushed to read when they sign up early. We welcome book bloggers, librarians, book club, and reading circle members, and we also welcome professional critics and subject matter experts in the category they prefer.
After we receive your application, we will use your information to publicize you as one of our judges (unless you prefer to be anonymous). We will not reveal to the authors or publishers that you judged their book. You will be asked to evaluate all the submitted ebooks in the category of your choice. You can click on the link for their ebook and see their book’s website or Amazon page to get an idea of what others thought as well.
While your subjective evaluation is most important, we will supply you with a score sheet to aid you in your objective evaluation.
One way we can show our appreciation of you is to promote you and your blog, or your service, or your book club, or whatever it is that makes you more than just a reader of ebooks–and someone who wants an active stake in promoting great writing. We do this through featuring you as a judge on our site with links to your blog or website of your choice.
We also have a Judge logo that you can use for your blog, website, ezine, etc.
While we welcome publishers of all size, we want this contest to be a place where self-publishers can stand alongside other authors on an equal footing with an equal shot at exposure and recognition.
The Global Ebook Awards can’t promote great ebooks without you so please contact us today and ask to be a judge!
Request to be a book judge to Barbara Gaughen (“gone”), Gaughen Global Public Relations, Barbara@rain.org, +1-805-968-8567
Supply your contact information, the URL you want to promote, and the ebook category of your choice. You may choose more than one category.
- Your Name
- Your Mailing Address, Phone (Optional)
- Your E-mail Address
- The URL You Want to Promote
- The eBook Category of Your Choice
For categories, see http://globalebookawards.com/registration/ (Scroll down.)
Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook Awards is a division of Para Publishing LLC of Santa Barbara.
Joseph – Quite different from when I first read the process. The video makes it more understandable and it sounds like a less daunting process to get inolved in.
Now it appears that you pay a fee to enter the contest. This is similar to the Amazon contest, the IPPY awards, and the new contest from Writer's Digest.
Then the judges look at the material you provide and decide if you are nominated. If you are nominated you move into a category for judging. What is the judging process at that point? It doesn't look like the judges ever read the books, they just use the information provided by the applicant.
Do I still have an application on file in the contest?
Mitch Davies
Thanks for the feedback, Mitch.
You are correct in that the judges will review the information provided rather than reading the eBooks first. We have concerns about keeping everyone's eBooks on our servers and getting hacked. You may or may not know that in the past 90 days, both MySpace and Gawker (the blog network) had their sites hacked for their passwords; we feel it is better and safer to require authors to email the books directly to the judges using a secret address that will only be revealed to finalists.
The judges WILL read the books that they select as finalists and we will have at least 3 judges for each category.
You don't have your application on file, so please feel free to enter when you are ready and let me know if this helps!
Hi Mitch, I thought I should answer publicly since you posted here and we corresponded privately. Yes, the judges do review your page on our site which includes links to your eBook as well as links you provide which are directed to reviews/comments online by others (including Amazon reviews). All the judges in your category will be reading the same group of eBooks that they select as Finalists. Much of it depends on what you provide to us, but there is also another element we are bringing to the competition which will help bring more readers to your eBook and to the link you provide to your site so that someone can buy your eBook. We are working on the wording right now.
Hi,
I was wondering how the entrants will be judged? Specifically, will winners be selected from each category (for example, horror, mystery, romance, etc.) or will all the fiction & non-fiction titles be lumped together and competing against each other in their respective fiction or non-fiction category?
Thanks!
Hi Tamara,
This is a great question and I apologize if it wasn’t clear enough to you or others.
EACH category will have its own finalist(s) and EACH category will have its own winner. We are also working on some other ideas, so any input you all have to help us make this the best ebook awards competition ever is worth the time it takes to post it here or email us.
Joseph Dowdy, Director
Dan Poynter’s Global eBook Awards
Great write up! Who did it, and how do I vote?
Thanks Joseph : )))))
I’ve had a children’s picture eBook recently published by a reputable eBook publisher now on sale through my publisher and Amazon, etc. I would love to enter
this in the contest but feel I may be at a great disadvantage as you say the judges will review the information provided rather than reading the eBooks first and you also say the judges don’t need to read all eBooks just identify finalists.
You see my situation is that I may not receive reviews back on time for the judges to look at and also I don’t have a website yet. I don’t want to pay the $59 entry fee and nobody bothers to read my book. Is this a level playing field competition. Please put my mind at rest