NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Digital Book World (DBW) – the gathering of the
wide world of publishing – named the winners of the 2019 DBW Awards
during a special ceremony and reception on the evening of
Sept 10 at the Loews Vanderbilt
Hotel.
"We are honored to recognize best-in-class achievement with the
2019 DBW Awards," said Bradley
Metrock, executive producer of Digital Book World and CEO of
Score Publishing and the VoiceFirst Events series of conferences.
"Congratulations to all of this year's winners."
Winners of the 2019 DBW Awards include:
Publisher of the Year
Publishing Executive of the Year
- James Daunt, Barnes & Noble,
Inc. and Waterstones
The DBW Medal for Leadership in Diversity
- Crystal Swain-Bates, Author
The DAISY Consortium Award for Accessibility in
Publishing
DBW Outstanding Achievement Award
- Margot Atwell, Kickstarter
DBW Outstanding Achievement Award
- Mary Ghikas, American Library
Association
DBW Outstanding Achievement Award
Best Publishing Technology
- Bookchain (Scenarex)
- Skill Flow Builder (Amazon)
Best Use of Emerging Technology
- Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (Netflix)
Best Use of Podcasting in Publishing
- Print Run (Laura Zats /
Erik Hane)
Publishing Commentator of the Year
- Jane Friedman, The Hot
Sheet and JaneFriedman.com
Best Book (Fiction)
- On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)
Best Book (Non-Fiction)
- The Mueller Report (The Internet Archive / Digital
Public Library of America)
Best Book (Children's)
- Born Just Right
(Jordan Reeves)
Best Book (Business)
- The Customer Centricity Playbook (Peter Fader and Sarah
Toms)
Best Book (Poetry)
Best Book (Suspense/Horror)
- Five Midnights (Ann Davila
Cardinal)
Best Book (Religious / Inspirational)
- Miracle Lady
(Amy Collier Artman)
Best Book (Published by a University Press)
- Blind Injustice (University of
California Press)
For additional information about Digital Book World or the DBW
Awards, visit http://www.digitalbookworld.com. Follow Digital Book
World on Twitter: @DigiBookWorld or via #DBW19.
About VoiceFirst Events
Digital Book World is produced by VoiceFirst Events (a Score
Publishing company), which hosts a portfolio of other leading
events that explore the emergence of voice-tech and AI, including:
Voice of the Flash Briefing, a VoiceFirst.TV online event
(Oct. 3); The Voice of Money
(Oct. 29 in New York City); and Project Voice, the No. 1
event for voice-tech and AI in America, taking place the week after
CES (Jan. 13-17, 2020, in
Chattanooga, Tenn.), among others.
To learn more about these events, visit
http://www.VoiceFirstEvents.com.
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