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The 2019 Finalists for The Digital Book World Awards Announced. Winners will be presented at the 2019 Digital Book World Conference September 10-12, 2019 - Nashville, TN. Digital Book World 2019 Finalists Publisher Of The Year Mango Publishing Sourcebooks University of California Press Amazon Publishing Stripe Press Workman Publishing Oxford University Press Simon & Schuster Elsevier X Artists' Books Publishing Executive of the Year James Daunt (CEO, Waterstones) Dominique Raccah (CEO, Sourcebooks) Markus Dohle (CEO, Penguin Random House) Krishan Trotman (Executive Editor, Hachette) Jeff James (VP and Publisher, HarperCollins Leadership) Margot Atwell (Head of Publishing, Kickstarter) The DBW Medal For Leadership In Diversity Ellen Oh (WeNeedDiverseBooks) Crystal Swain-Bates (Author) Natalie Carter / Melissa Cummings-Quarry (Black Girls Book Club (London)) Jenn Baker (Minorities in Publishing) Haki Madhubuti (Third World Press) Publishing Commentator of the Year Joanna Penn Jane Friedman Sam Missingham Orna Ross Molly Flatt Best Book (Fiction) An Orchestra Of Minorities (Chigozie Obioma) Meet Me In Monaco (Hazel Gaynor / Heather Webb) Beneath The Lighthouse (Julieanne Lynch) On The Come Up (Angie Thomas) Women Talking (Miriam Toews) On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong) Sugar Run (Mesha Maren) We Came Here To Forget (Andrea Dunlop) Best Book (Non-Fiction) The Mueller Report (The Internet Archive / Digital Public Library of America) Choosing Happiness - Rudrani Devi The League of Wives: The Untold Story Of The Women Who Took On The US Government TO Bring Their Husbands Home (Heath Hardage Lee) Unfreedom Of The Press (Mark Levin) The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769-2018 (The Paul Mellon Centre) Parkland: Birth Of A Movement (Dave Cullen) Woonyoomboo The Night Heron (SharingStories Foundation) The Uninhabitable Earth - Life After Warming (David Wallace-Wells) Political Correctness (Michael Eric Dyson et al) Best Book (Children's) We Are Not Friends (Anna Kang) Illegal (Eoin Coifer, Andrew Donkin) Born Just Right (Jordan Reeves) How About A Purple Balloon (Susan Hammond) Liberty Lane: A Conservative Children's Book Series (Josh Bansal / Amalia Halikias) How To Read A Book (Kwame Alexander) Best Book (Business) The Customer Centricity Playbook (Peter Fader and Sarah Toms) The Making Of A Manager (Julie Zhuo) Case Master: Thoughtful Cases For Competitive Future Consultants (Valentin Nugmanov) Digital Minimalism: Choosing A Focused Life In A Noisy World (Cal Newport) 5 Years Of Must Reads From HBR: 2019 Edition (Michael E. Porter et al) Best Book (Poetry) 1919 (Eve L. Ewing) Where Light Meets Darkness: A Pilgrim's Sacred Muse (Jonathan Heppner) Civilian (Deonte Osayande) The Twenty-Ninth Year (Hala Alyan) Best Book (Suspense/Horror) Her One Mistake (Heidi Perks) Xenon Phobia (Sterling Emmal) Five Midnights (Ann Davila Cardinal) Wanderer (Chuck Wendig) Best Book (Religious / Inspirational) Devotedly: The Personal Letters And Love Story Of Jim And Elisabeth Elliot (Valerie Shepard) Ayesha At Last (Uzma Jalaluddin) Miracle Lady (Amy Collier Artman) Best Book Published By A University Press Antidemocracy In America (Columbia University Press) Bubbles and Crashes (Stanford University Press) A World Beyond Physics (Oxford University Press) Hope And History (Cornell University Press) Blind Injustice (University of California Press) Best Publishing Technology Bookchain (Scenarex) Penny Magic The Reading Realm My Virtual Literary Festival Blurt Skill Flow Builder (Amazon) Best Use of Emerging Technology The Ghostkeeper's Journal and Field Guide (Japhet Asher) The Chef (James Patterson) Space Race (Ben Hubbard) Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix) Disney Read-Along Books (Google / Disney) Adventuron Shift To All Digital-First Textbooks (Pearson) Audible Customer Support Line Through Alexa (Amazon) Best Use Of Podcasting In Publishing Remember Reading (HarperCollins) Print $Run (Laura Zats / Erik Hane) Black Girl Book Club (Jordan Bailey / Lauren Mayfield) Minorities in Publishing (Jenn Baker) The Creative Penn Podcast (Joanna Penn) In addition to the awards listed above, the DAISY Consortium is currently determining the Finalists for the Digital Book World Accessibility Award, Presented By DAISY. Those results will be announced when they are available. Also, Digital Book World will present three special awards for Outstanding Achievement this year in the publishing industry. Margot Atwell (Head of Publishing, Kickstarter) for organizing the groundbreaking publishing conference The Next Page, the DAISY Consortium for the release of the Ace by DAISY desktop app, and Mary Ghikas for guiding the American Library Association through a challenging period of publisher relations. All three of these awards will be presented by their peers as part of the DBW Reception.

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2019 Finalists for The Digital Book World Awards Announced

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