Who may enter?
The Global Ebook Awards are open to authors, publishers, illustrators and photographers.
What is eligible?
- Ebooks from authors, publishers, illustrators, photographers, self-published or traditionally published, regardless of company size. The Global Ebook Awards are given to the best of the best, not the best of some special group.
- Ebooks in the English language from any country.
- Ebooks copyrighted or released (offered on a website) in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Revised editions, with a more recent release date, are eligible. Revised editions are considered by the publishing industry to be new ebooks (they usually have new ISBNs); they may be entered again in following years.
- Ebooks fitting into one of the categories listed.
Dates
- Accepting entries: Now.
- Eligibility cut off: ebooks published and available online for free or purchase before April 29, 2013
- Finalists (all) announced July 20, 2013
Application deadline: April 30, 2013 (midnight Pacific Time).
Judging
Ebooks are evaluated as objectively as possible with scores on several items. Judging panels will consider cover design, content quality, layout when not straight text, originality, etc. Judges are industry professionals with experience in ebooks and in the category they evaluate. Decisions of the judges are final.
Awards
In addition to unique awards, digital “sticker” files will be given to Gold, Silver, Bronze and Honorable Mention Winners to apply to their ebook covers and promotional materials.
How to enter?
- Apply by purchasing the correct number of entries.
- Fill out the simple form at the next page to complete your registration.
How to pay:
Credit Card
PayPal
Check
Money Order
If you would like to use PayPal to pay for your entries, we do have a PayPal email address that we use that may be known to you from the first year of the Global Ebook Awards, but we will not be using it to process entry fees this year or in the future. Instead, please use the shopping cart which has a PayPal option.
Checks may be sent to the PO Box noted below.
You will be notified of the receipt of each entry and progress of judging.
Where to enter
On this site. Click on Apply, above.
The mailing addresses are:
Global Ebook Awards
Para Publishing LLC
PO Box 8206
Santa Barbara, CA 93118
USA
And
Global Ebook Awards
Para Publishing LLC
530 Ellwood Ridge
Santa Barbara, CA 93117
USA
What are the entry fees?
1-6 entries: $79 USD each; normally authors, the copyright owner.
7 or more entries: 15% off entire order; normally publishers, the ISBN owner.
Thank you, Dan, for this wonderful opportunity to be recognized and potentially, promoted. I've been a fan of yours for years and am grateful for the significant help your Self-Publishing Manuals and Publishing Poynters newsletter has provided me. I've read many eBooks on self-publishing and far too many of them paint rosy pictures. Yours manage to be pragmatic yet simultaneously inspirational. Many thanks!
I didn’t see Romance in the Fiction category and just want to inquire if I can still submit my Romance novel.
Thanks!
We didn’t include it on the page listing the categories, but it’s there now. There are already 8 books listed in that category. Please join them!
My novel was originally published on Kindle but will soon be in paperback. Would it still qualify? Thanks
What happens when a person is unsure about which category to apply and then, perhaps, gets it wrong. Case in point, my book on writing tips has always been called a reference book, but you also have the category of Writing/Publishing. Do you automatically put an entry in the right category where YOU believe it fits? Thank you.
How many winners and finalists will there be per category?
There is only one winner per category and the number of finalist can be a bunch or a few depending on how many the judges want to declare as finalists.
Dan: What a great opportunity! (REmember back when with Internet With Fred and Susan?) These are exciting times for eBooks and I am so happy to have the opportunity to show mine off. So thanks and take care. Susan Klopfer
Hi all, thanks for the opportunity and exposure. Is there any chance of adding a Psychological Fiction category?
Hi Silvano, We will seriously consider any category where there are people who review that category. If no one is reviewing that type of ebook, then we will probably not add more than the 80 categories we already have.
Thank you for the prompt reply. I’ll keep an eye out on the categories then to change my book’s if it ever opens up.
I have two books that will now hit the deadline. I do not have ISBN number yet. Can I still enter them?
If they are for sale online right now, you can enter them. You must provide the page where they are for sale. Please see the instructions for more details.
Hi,
I just got the email for the 2012 Awards. I noticed the e-book has to be uploaded to Smashwords and the judges will use the review copy capability.
Will this pose a problem for authors who are selling their e-books? Is anyone able to download the e-books for review?
Thanks,
Karen
Via the Coupon Codes, only our judges will be able to download and read your book.
The publicity you receive should sell more books for you.
Hi, again,
I have two more questions:
Can an e-book that was submitted and nominated last year, but didn’t win, be resubmitted if it’s been revised?
Is an e-book that’s between 30 and 40 pages eligible?
Thanks,
Karen Cioffi-Ventrice
We’re excited about entering Wholeness in Living: Kindling the Inner Light as an ebook in your competition! Signe at Firebird Media Management is putting the finishing touches on it ‘as we speak’ so all we have to do is finalize it, make it available for sale and our entry will be sent to you!
Hi ! i’m excited about the possibility of entering !! Would a Fishing Phenomena, Techniques and Tips book fit into any of the categories ?
Sounds as though it would fit in the category
Sports/Fitness/Recreation Non-Fiction.
See
http://globalebookawards.com/registration/
My new Medical Thriller will be released soon and noticed there is no specific category for this genre. Should I consider the “Suspense/Thriller” category? Several reviewers are now referring to this novel as “Literary Fiction”. Any such category as well? Thanks!
You can submit your book in the suspense/thriller category. In the past if we received a lot of books in the same category we would split them out into sub categories. If we end up getting quite a few medical thrillers we can create a new sub category for these books.
Hi!
Does the category ‘historical literature fiction’ have room for romance too? My story is Regency espionage with romance and I’m teetering…
Thank you for a push in the right direction.
We have decided to split up the Romance category, so it will be Romance – Contemporary and Romance – Historical. These new categories should be up in a day or two.
Hi,
Do you have a category for “first ebook – fiction.”
No we do not.
Entries released prior to April 29th this year — is there a cut off for how far back that is?Most of my ebooks have been out a while — 2008.
Also, I self pub in PDF and .PRC. I’d be happy to send both versions if my work is still eligible.
No, there is not cut off for how far bak they can go they just have to be released by 4/29/12. Yes, please email both the PDF and .PRC versions, that would be great!
I’m a little confused, Becky. Above section about eligibility says, “Ebooks copyrighted or released (offered on a website) in 2011, 2012 and 2013. Revised editions, with a more recent release date, are eligible. Revised editions are considered by the publishing industry to be new ebooks (they usually have new ISBNs); they may be entered again in following years.” Was that a misprint or a rule change? Thanks for clearing this up.
The reference to revised editions was just clarification. There was no rule change and it is not a misprint. As long as the ebook has a copyright date in 2011, 2012 and 2013 it is eligible. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
I published my Photography book on iBooks using, iBooks Author, would My book be eligible for this great opportunity?
As long as it is an ebook available for purchase online and was published either in 2011, 2012 0r 2013 it would be eligible.