The 2020 DBW Awards
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Nominations for The 2020 DBW Awards, recognizing best-in-class achievement across the wide world of publishing, have now begun, and will continue through Friday, May 29, 2020.
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If your company has at least one person registered for Digital Book World 2020, you can email as many nominations to DBW@ScorePublishing.us, all complimentary.
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Otherwise, nominations carry a $59 fee and may be made here. Finalists will be announced Tuesday, September 1, with the exception of AudioFile and DAISY Consortium's awards, which will be announced as we receive the Finalists.
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Winners are highlighted in orange.
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Publisher Of The Year
Tyrant Books
Spotify
Nosy Crow
Hachette
Harlequin
Publishing Genius Press
Two Dollar Radio
Simon & Schuster
BearManor Media
Audible
Dark Horse
Publishing Executive of the Year
James Daunt (Barnes & Noble)
Lisa Lucas (National Book Foundation)
Brian O'Leary (BISG)
JK Rowling (Pottermore)
Michael Pietsch (Hachette)
Juergen Boos (Frankfurt Book Fair)
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University Press Of The Year
Princeton University Press
Bristol University Press
Columbia University Press
Amsterdam University Press
Florida University Press
Harvard University Press
University Press of Mississippi
Cambridge University Press
Wayne State University Press
Oregon State University Press
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Library Of The Year
Broward County (Florida) Libraries Division
King County (Washington) Library System
Stuttgart (Germany) City Library
Nashville (Tennessee) Public Library System
Los Angeles (California) Public Library
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Bookseller Of The Year
Bookshop
Powell's Books (Oregon)
Cafe Con Libros (New York)
Tattered Cover (Colorado)
Marcus Books (California)
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Media Outlet Of The Year
Publishers Weekly
Washington Post
NPR
The Hot Sheet
Wall Street Journal
The AudioFile Magazine Award For Audio Publisher Of The Year
Audible
Penguin Random House
Princeton University Press
Simon & Schuster
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The DAISY Consortium Award For Accessibility In Publishing
The Department of Canadian Heritage
The Marie Dutton Brown Medal for Leadership in Diversity (winner)
Regina Brooks (Serendipity)
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DBW Outstanding Achievement Award For COVID-19 Response (winners)
Coronavirus: A Book For Children
Bookshop
CNN
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Best New Publishing Company Or Technology
AI Dungeon
Authors AI
GPT-3
Starfinder
Bookshop
Back to Hogwarts
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Best Use Of Podcasting Within Publishing
The Creative Penn
This Is The Author
AskALLi
Book Friends Forever
Minorities In Publishing
Case Closed
Beyond The Book
Publishing Commentator Of The Year
Jane Friedman
David Gaughran
James Ledbetter
Silvana Reyes
Mike Shatzkin
Joanna Penn
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Best Book (Fiction)
Whiteout Conditions (Tariq Shah)
The Sun Down Motel (Simone St. James)
Hex (Rebecca Dinerstein Knight)
Followers (Megan Angelo)
The Book Of Longings: A Novel (Sue Monk Kidd)
Life of the Party (Tea Hacic-Vlahovic)
Mad Clot On A Holy Bone (Asher Hartman)
The Night Watchman (Louise Erdrich)
A Good Neighborhood (Therese Anne Fowler)
My Dark Vanessa (Kate Elizabeth Russell)
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Best Book (Non-Fiction)
Scenes of a Reclusive Writer & Reader of Mumbai (Fiza Pathan)
Deaths of Despair and the Future Of Capitalism (Anne Case and Angus Deaton)
Charter Schools And Their Enemies (Thomas Sowell)
Profiles In Corruption: Abuse Of Power By America's Progressive Elite (Peter Schweizer)
Exit The Maze: One Addiction, One Cause, One Cure (Dr. Donna Marks)
Coming Out Of The Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples In Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press)
American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming In The Heartland (Marie Mutsuki Mockett)
Open Book (Jessica Simpson)
Why We're Polarized (Ezra Klein)
The Hynek UFO Report (J. Allen Hynek)
When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir Of Faith, Justice, and Freedom For The Wrongly Convicted (Jim McCloskey)
Bridging Linguistics and Economics (Cambridge University Press)
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Best Book (Published By A University Press)
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral And Drive Major Economic Events (Princeton University Press)
Coming Out Of The Magnolia Closet: Same-Sex Couples In Mississippi (University of Mississippi Press)
Bridging Linguistics and Economics (Cambridge University Press)
What The Signs Say (Vanderbilt University Press)
Ultimate Price: The Value We Place On Life (University of California Press)
The Twilight Zone (Wayne State University Press)
Tossed To The Wind: Stories Of Hurricane Maria Survivors (University of Florida Press)
Deaths of Despair and the Future Of Capitalism (Princeton University Press)
Modern Housing (University of Minnesota Press)
Capital and Ideology (Harvard University Press)
