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Welcome to Book Awards Central, the ongoing feature with updates on all four of the book awards contests conducted by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online. This is your one-stop location for all the entry guidelines, results, merchandise, and information about entering and utilizing the marketing value of winning one of our book awards. Book Awards merchandise page - Medals, seals, certificates, and electronic artwork for all awards contests: http://www.jenkinsgroupinc.com/IXXO Download the marketing white paper, "Using Book Awards to Boost Your Book Sales." Results of the past year’s contests: 2010 Axiom Business Book Awards results 2010 Living Now Book Awards results 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards results 2010 IPPY Outstanding Books of the Year 2009 Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards results * * * * * Here are updates on all four contests, including links to entry guidelines, entry forms, and online entry: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS www.IndependentPublisher.com  "Recognizing Excellence in Independent Publishing" Entry will open for the 15th ANNUAL AWARDS on July 15th! Click here to receive 2011 I.P. Book Awards entry info. We presented the 2010 IPPY Award medals at a big bash in New York on May 25th, kicking off this year's BookExpo America convention. See photos from the event HERE. Visit the IPPY Awards press page with links to press release, awards merchandise, etc. HERE. Visit the Amazon.com 2010 IPPY Awards bookstore. Thanks and congratulations to all participants for your truly great work! Launched in 1996, the Independent Publisher Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers. Established as the first unaffiliated awards program open exclusively to independents, the "IPPYs" recognize hundreds of the year's best books, bringing them to the attention of booksellers, buyers, librarians, and book lovers. The IPPY Awards contest is among the largest and most recognized book awards events in the world, open to all independent, university, small press, and self-publishers who produce books intended for the North American market. Click here to receive 2011 I.P. Book Awards entry info. Questions? Contact Jim Barnes, Awards Director, jimb@bookpublishing.com * * * * * AXIOM BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - "Success Through Knowledge" - www.AxiomAwards.com  The 2011 Axiom Business Book Awards are now open! Early-bird entry fee of $75 is good through August 7, 2010. Learn more about how to enter HERE. Results of the 2010 Axiom Awards were announced on March 12, 2010. Congratulations to the winnners! Complete results and photos from the 2010 Axiom Awards: http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1353 Photos from the Axiom Awards medalist appreciation event: http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1372 Visit the Amazon.com 2010 Axiom Awards bookstore. Now in their fourth year, the Axiom Business Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to the year's best business books and their creators. The goal of these business book awards is to celebrate the innovative, intelligent and creative aspects of the books that make business people think, see and work differently every day. To learn more about the Axiom Business Book Awards visit www.AxiomAwards.com or contact Jim Barnes, Awards Director: jimb@bookpublishing.com; 1.800.644.0133 x1011. * * * * * LIVING NOW BOOK AWARDS www.LivingNowAwards.com  “BOOKS FOR BETTER LIVING” The 2011 Living Now Book Awards are now open! Early-bird entry fee of $75 is good through August 28, 2010. Learn more about how to enter HERE. The 2010 Living Now results were announced on Earth Day, April 22nd. Complete results and photos from the 2010 Axiom Awards: http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1357 Photos from the Living Now Awards medalist appreciation event: http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1373 Visit the Amazon.com 2010 Living Now Awards bookstore. The Living Now Book Awards are designed to bring increased recognition to the year’s very best lifestyle books and their creators. We all seek healthier, more fulfilling and productive lives, and books are an important tool for gaining knowledge about how to achieve these goals for ourselves and our loved ones. The purpose of the Living Now Book Awards is to celebrate the innovation and creativity of newly published books that can enhance the quality of our lives, from cooking and entertaining to fitness and travel. The awards are open to all books written in English and intended for the North American market. Winning a Living Now Book Award will bring recipients the credibility and publicity they need to further their book marketing and sales success. Lifestyle publishing categories such as home, health and self-improvement are the fastest-growing segments of book publishing today, and the Living Now Book Awards will help demonstrate the importance of these books to readers and their vitality in the marketplace. The Living Now award seal on a book’s cover will become a symbol that says, “This book will improve and enrich your life! Buy me today!” To learn more about the Living Now Book Awards visit www.LivingNowAwards.com or contact Jim Barnes, Awards Director: jimb@bookpublishing.com; 1.800.644.0133 x1011. * * * * * 2010 MOONBEAM CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARDS - www.MoonbeamAwards.com  “Celebrating youthful curiosity, discovery and learning through books and reading." Entry is open for the 4th annual Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards, with a final entry deadline on August 21, 2010. The Moonbeam Awards are designed to honor the year's best children’s books, authors and illustrators. Click here to visit the Moonbeam online entry page. See last year's Moonbeam Awards results and photos: http://www.independentpublisher.com/article.php?page=1315 Presented by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are intended to bring increased recognition to exemplary children’s books and their creators, and to support childhood literacy and life-long reading. Awards will be given in 36 categories covering the full range of subjects, styles and age groups that children’s books are written and published in today. To receive guidelines and entry info for the 2010 Moonbeam Awards by email, click here. To learn more about the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards visit www.MoonbeamAwards.com or contact Jim Barnes, Awards Director: jimb@bookpublishing.com; 1.800.644.0133 x1011 * * * * * WHY ENTER BOOK AWARDS? Entering your book titles in awards programs -- and winning -- brings credibility, publicity, prestige, and personal satisfaction. It can extend your publicity campaign, get you a whole new round of attention from the press, and open new doors with distributors and vendors. See the recent BeneathTheCover.com blog entry from book PR expert Nettie Hartsock, Your Book Can't Win an Award if You Don't Enter. Awards do influence reviewers and buyers. A 1999 Cookbook category IPPY finalist was discovered this way, and 187,000 copies were sold to a pharmaceutical company. A cookbook winner in our inaugural 1997 contest has reordered stickers continually and the book keeps on selling, thanks in part to the gold seal on the cover. Winners are featured prominently in our monthly newsletter, which goes out monthly to over 7,000 subscribers worldwide, many of whom are editors, agents, buyers, booksellers and librarians, and appear indefinitely at www.IndependentPublisher.com. We distribute a results program at BookExpo, and send the results press release to an additional 500 media outlets. "Winning the silver award last year (Useppa, a Passage in Time, 2007) improved our ability to market the book in a multitude of ways. It gave us credentials that we used in our public relations and marketing; it made a real difference in our ability to get book signings and presentation opportunities; it enabled us to get radio and TV interviews; and often people selected to purchase the book because of the silver award medallion sticker. We actually had a couple of people return the book because their book did not have the medallion sticker. It also made the author and the artist feel appreciated and honored, and gave us a reason to celebrate their success!" - Chris Ludwig, Passages Press “I can't tell you how much I value my initial Bronze IPPY award (2008), and I know it's been instrumental in drawing attention to the The Tao of Rudy! Chronicle Books just made an offer for The Tao of Rudy, and of course I accepted the initial terms a couple of weeks ago, and am currently reviewing the rest of the contract. A lot has happened in the last year, and I appreciate your efforts in making my first book a success!“ – Corrine Humphreys, Publisher/Author/Illustrator "The fact is award stickers help to convince buyers to purchase. I've seen this happen with librarians -- when faced with two competing titles and a limited acquisition budget the librarians will take the one that won an award, any award, over the title that doesn't have an award to its credit. I'm confident that this same phenomena works for bookstore patrons browsing the shelves as well." - Jim Cox, Midwest Book Review Back 
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