Winners
for
Inaugural
eBook
Awards
Announced
October
23,
2000
--
The
International
eBook
Award
Foundation
(IeBAF)
has
proudly
announced
the
names
of
the
winners
for
the
inaugural
Frankfurt
eBook
Award,
the
first
award
designed
to
recognize
achievements
in
the
emerging
eBook
industry.
Selected
from
a
field
that
included
entries
from
Australia,
Brazil,
China,
France,
Germany,
Italy,
Norway,
South
Korea,
the
United
Kingdom,
and
the
United
States,
the
winners
were
named
during
a
ceremony
at
the
Old
Frankfurt
Opera
House
on
October
20,
2000.
They
include
Larry
Colton,
Ed
McBain,
David
Maraniss,
E.M.
Schorb,
Zadie
Smith,
Vilim
Vasata
and
Dr.
Peter
N.
Yianilos.
The
top
award,
the
Grand
Prize
for
the
best
original
eBook,
was
given
to
E.M.
Schorb
for
his
murder
mystery,
Paradise
Square
(Denlinger's
Publishers
Ltd.)
and
David
Maraniss
for
When
Pride
Still
Mattered:
A
Life
of
Vince
Lombardi
(Simon
&
Schuster),
illuminating
the
life
of
the
legendary
Green
Bay
Packers
football
coach.
The
judges
felt
strongly
that
both
books,
in
their
own
way,
exemplified
the
Grand
Prize
criteria,
and
therefore
honored
two
individuals
with
the
top
prize,
each
receiving
$US
50,000.
The
Technology
Award
was
presented
to
Dr.
Peter
N.
Yianilos
for
eBookMan®
(Franklin
Electronic
Publishers),
a
hand-held
electronic
multi-media
content
device.
"The
Foundation
was
pleased
to
have
accomplished
several
of
the
major
goals
of
these
first-time
awards:
to
recognize
and
honor
eBook
authors,
to
promote
the
publishing
of
a
wide
variety
of
authors
from
around
the
world
in
the
eBook
format,
and
to
bring
eBooks
to
the
wider
attention
of
the
reading
public,"
said
Judging
Director
for
the
IeBAF
foundation
Peter
Mollman,
a
former
publishing
and
software
executive
with
World
Book
Encyclopedia
and
Random
House.
"We
are
delighted
to
present
these
inaugural
awards,
and
salute
all
the
authors
and
publishers
who
participated.
Especially
gratifying
was
the
fact
that
so
many
of
the
submissions
came
from
pure
eBook
publishers,
pioneers
in
this
new
world."
James
Burke,
Master
of
Ceremonies
for
the
Awards,
said,
"We
feel
this
is
the
beginning
of
a
new
era.
The
eBook
is
going
to
present
as
many
challenges
as
opportunities
to
those
of
us
involved
with
the
business
of
literacy.
Tonight's
finalists
and
prize-winners
are
among
the
first
to
cross
into
that
unknown
territory."
For
over
thirty
years,
James
Burke
has
produced,
directed,
written
and
presented
award-winning
television
series
on
the
BBC,
PBS
and
The
Learning
Channel,
including
the
Connections
series.
A
best-selling
author,
he
currently
writes
a
monthly
column
for
Scientific
American.
The
winners
for
the
inaugural
Frankfurt
eBook
Awards
are:
Grand
Prize
-
Best
Original
eBook
E.M.
Schorb,
Paradise
Square
(Denlinger's
Publishers
Ltd.)
David
Maraniss,
When
Pride
Still
Mattered:
A
Life
of
Vince
Lombardi
(Simon
&
Schuster)
Best
Fiction
work
originally
published
in
eBook
form:
Ed
McBain,
The
Last
Dance
(Simon
&
Schuster)
Best
Non-fiction
work
originally
published
in
eBook
form:
Larry
Colton,
Counting
Coup:
A
True
Story
of
Basketball
and
Honor
on
the
Little
Big
Horn
(iPublish.com/Time-Warner
Books)
Best
Fiction
work
originally
published
in
print
and
converted
to
eBook
form:
Zadie
Smith,
White
Teeth
(Random
House)
Best
Non-fiction
work
originally
published
in
print
and
converted
to
eBook
form:
Vilim
Vasata,
Überleben
in
der
Sintflut
(Econ
Verlag,
Germany);
English
title
is
Radical
Brand
eBook
Technology
Award
Dr.
Peter
N.
Yianilos,
eBookMan®
(Franklin
Electronic
Publishers)
The
Grand
Prize,
as
well
as
the
prize
of
$US
10,000
for
the
four
writing
categories,
were
presented
to
eBook
authors.
The
judges
also
bestowed
a
$US
10,000
technical
achievement
award
for
the
advancement
and
implementation
of
eBook
technologies
and
features.
Final
judging
decisions
on
the
winners
were
made
in
a
confidential
closed
session
in
Frankfurt.
The
judges
picked
the
Grand
Prize
winner
from
the
fiction
and
non-fiction
Original
eBook
category
finalists.
Submissions
in
these
categories
included
works
published
originally
in
eBook
form,
as
well
as
those
published
simultaneously
in
eBook
and
paper.
All
winners
were
kept
secret
until
they
were
announced
at
the
Award
Ceremony.The
prestigious
international
panel
of
Frankfurt
eBook
Award
judges
included
Walter
Anderson,
Chairman,
CEO
and
publisher
of
Parade
Publications;
Pierre
Assouline,
Editor-in-Chief
of
Lire
magazine;
Daniel
J.
Boorstin,
Librarian
of
Congress
Emeritus;
Stewart
Brand,
President
of
The
Long
Now
Foundation;
Maria
B.
Campbell,
President
of
Maria
B.
Campbell
Associates
Inc.;
Henry
Louis
Gates,
Jr.,
Chair
of
the
Afro-American
Studies
Department
and
Director
of
the
W.E.B.
Du
Bois
Institute
for
Afro-American
Studies
at
Harvard
University;
James
Gleick,
author
of
Faster
and
Chaos;
Cheryl
Hurley,
President
of
The
Library
America;
Roger
G.
Kennedy,
author
of
Burr,
Hamilton
and
Jefferson:
A
Study
in
Character
and
past
Director,
U.S.
National
Park
Service;
Walter
Mosley,
author
of
Devil
in
a
Blue
Dress
and
past
President
of
the
Mystery
Writers
of
America;
Hermann
Rotermund,
head
of
the
German
ARD
digital
television
project,
and
Paul
Saffo,
author
and
technology
forecaster
with
the
Institute
of
the
Future.
Alberto
Vitale,
former
Chairman
and
CEO
of
Random
House,
who
has
spent
his
career
leading
publishing
enterprises
and
spearheading
important,
cutting-edge
initiatives
in
media,
serves
as
Chairman
of
the
International
eBook
Award
Foundation.
"I
am
pleased
that
tonight
we're
also
celebrating
the
authors
and
agents
who
are
embracing
this
new
medium,
as
well
as
the
publishers
who
are
making
all
of
this
possible,
and
who
are
at
the
forefront
of
this
enormously
exciting
publishing
venue,"
Vitale
said.
"This
a
very
new
industry
in
its
earliest
stages
with
the
potential
to
grow
explosively
in
the
months
and
years
to
come.
It
is
a
work
in
progress,
and
we
will
all
learn
and
adapt
as
the
software
and
technology
develops
and
improves.
As
the
industry
matures,
the
Frankfurt
eBook
Awards
will
evolve
accordingly."
"In
addition
to
shining
a
light
on
and
energizing
the
eBook
industry,
which
was
the
first
role
of
the
Foundation,
we
serve
as
a
communication
and
information
platform
for
the
publishing
community,"
said
Roxanna
Frost,
President
and
Executive
Director
of
the
International
eBook
Award
Foundation.
"We
have
successfully
opened
a
worldwide
dialogue
on
eBooks
and
created
a
forum
for
bringing
together
the
best
examples
of
this
creative
form.
We
look
forward
to
building
on
this
strong
beginning."
The
International
eBook
Award
Foundation
sponsors
the
Frankfurt
eBook
Awards.
Further
information
is
available
on
the
IeBAF
website
at
http://www.iebaf.org.
The
site
includes
complete
finalist
listings,
submission
criteria,
profiles
of
the
judges,
and
other
background
material
regarding
the
Foundation.
IeBAF
is
sponsored
by
Microsoft
Reader
(www.microsoft.com/reader/),
Gemstar's
Rocket
eBook
and
Softbook
Press
(www.gemstar.com),
AdobeTM
Glassbook
(www.glassbook.com),
Overdrive
(www.overdrive.com),
and
Reciprocal
(www.reciprocal.com),
with
support
from
the
Frankfurt
Book
Fair
(www.frankfurt-book-fair.com),
Contentville
(www.
contentville.com),
and
the
Open
eBook
Forum
(www.openeBook.com).
Video
coverage
filmed
during
the
award
ceremony
can
be
seen
on
the
IeBAF
web
site
at
www.iebaf.org
Frankfurt
eBook
Award
Winners
Larry
Colton,
Counting
Coup:
A
True
Story
of
Basketball
and
Honor
on
the
Little
Big
Horn
(iPublish.com/Time-Warner
Books)
Best
Non-fiction
work
originally
published
in
eBook
form
Larry
Colton,
a
former
professional
baseball
player,
writes
for
a
variety
of
publications,
including
Sports
Illustrated
and
The
New
York
Times
Magazine.
He
lives
in
Portland,
Oregon.
About
Counting
Coup:
A
True
Story
of
Basketball
and
Honor
on
the
Little
Big
Horn
In
Native
American
tradition,
a
warrior
gained
honor
and
glory
by
"counting
coup":
touching
his
enemy
in
battle
and
living
to
tell
the
tale.
In
this
extraordinary
work
of
journalism,
Larry
Colton
journeys
into
the
world
of
Montana's
Crow
Indians
and
follows
the
struggles
of
a
talented,
moody,
charismatic
young
woman
named
Sharon
LaForge,
a
gifted
basketball
player
and
a
descendant
of
one
of
George
Armstrong
Custer's
Indian
scouts.
Far
more
than
a
sports
story
or
a
portrait
of
youth,
Counting
Coup
is
a
vivid,
unforgettable
portrait
of
a
little-seen
part
of
America.
Ed
McBain,
The
Last
Dance
(Simon
&
Schuster)
Best
Fiction
work
originally
published
in
eBook
form
Winner
of
the
Mystery
Writers
of
America
Edgar
Allan
Poe
award
and
the
Grand
Master
award,
and
the
only
American
to
be
awarded
Britain's
Diamond
Dagger
Award,
the
highest
honor
a
suspense
writer
can
achieve,
Ed
McBain
is
one
of
the
most
illustrious
names
in
crime
fiction.
Writing
under
his
real
name,
Evan
Hunter,
McBain
first
came
to
prominence
as
the
author
of
The
Blackboard
Jungle,
which
became
the
basis
for
the
1950's
film
classic.
He
is
perhaps
best
recognized
as
the
writer
who
truly
defined
the
police
"procedural,"
decades
before
the
arrival
of
Hill
Street
Blues,
Homicide
and
NYPD
Blue.
He
established
the
use
of
multiple
story
lines,
split-focus
action,
several
key
players
who
re-appear
in
different
stories,
and
street-savvy
language.
One
of
the
most
prolific
and
celebrated
suspense
writers
of
our
era,
McBain
counts
100
million
copies
of
his
80-plus
books
in
print,
in
more
than
11
languages.
He
lives
in
Norwalk,
Connecticut.
About
The
Last
Dance
Ed
McBain
launched
his
87th
Precinct
series
in
1956.
The
Last
Dance
is
the
50th
installment
in
this
series
of
gritty
novels
about
big
city
detectives,
cops,
stool
pigeons,
prostitutes,
and
the
hearts
and
souls
of
the
individuals
who
wear
the
badge.
From
the
outset,
Steve
Carella
and
Meyer
Meyer
have
their
doubts
about
the
story
told
by
the
dead
man's
daughter.
As
possible
insurance
fraud
blossoms
into
a
certain
homicide,
the
detectives
trail
the
killer
to
an
upcoming
musical
and
a
mysterious
drug.
The
signature
McBain
style,
including
a
vividly
drawn
ensemble
cast,
multiple
plot
lines,
sharp
wit
and
dead-on
dialogue,
combine
to
make
The
Last
Dance
a
thriller
created
by
a
master.
David
Maraniss,
When
Pride
Still
Mattered:
A
Life
of
Vince
Lombardi(Simon
&
Schuster)
Grand
Prize
-
Best
Original
eBook
David
Maraniss
is
an
associate
editor
at
the
Washington
Post
and
author
of
two
critically
acclaimed
and
best-selling
books:
When
Pride
Still
Mattered:
A
Life
of
Vince
Lombardi,
which
was
a
New
York
Times
bestseller
for
nearly
five
months,
and
First
In
His
Class:
A
Biography
of
Bill
Clinton,
which
is
considered
the
definitive
biography
on
the
president.
He
also
wrote
The
Clinton
Enigma
and
is
coauthor
of
two
books,
the
recently
released
The
Prince
of
Tennessee:
The
Rise
of
Al
Gore,
with
colleague
Ellen
Nakashima,
and
Tell
Newt
to
Shutup
with
Michael
Weisskopf.
During
his
23-year
career
at
the
Washington
Post,
Maraniss
has
won
virtually
every
major
award
in
journalism,
including
the
1993
Pulitzer
Prize
for
National
Reporting
for
his
articles
on
the
life
and
career
of
Bill
Clinton.
He
lives
in
Washington
D.C.
About
When
Pride
Still
Mattered:
A
Life
of
Vince
Lombardi
In
When
Pride
Still
Mattered,
David
Maraniss
traces
Vincent
Lombardi's
rise
and
illuminates
the
life
and
legend
of
the
mythic
coach
and
U.S.
national
icon
who
transformed
the
Green
Bay
Packers
into
a
football
powerhouse
in
the
1960s.
Drawing
on
hundreds
of
in-depth,
tape-recorded,
on-the-record
interviews,
and
supplemented
by
letters,
documents,
and
other
archival
materials,
Maraniss
separates
Lombardi,
the
human
being,
from
the
symbolic
character
created
by
his
success.
He
examines
the
contradictions
and
ambiguities
that
surround
the
man
who
became
the
greatest
professional
football
coach
in
American
history
and
who
transformed
football
into
a
metaphor
for
the
American
experience.
E.M.
Schorb,
Paradise
Square
(Denlinger's
Publishers
Ltd.)
Grand
Prize
-
Best
Original
eBook
E.M.
Schorb's
most
recent
poetry
collection
is
Murderer's
Day,
winner
of
The
Verna
Emery
Poetry
Prize.
His
other
books
are
50
Poems,
The
Poor
Boy
and
Other
Poems,
and
Scenario
for
Scorsese.
His
stories
and
poems
have
appeared
in
The
American
Scholar,
The
Antigonish
Review
(Canada),
The
Chicago
Review,
The
Dark
Horse
(Scotland),
Dramatists
Guild
Quarterly,
Isaac
Asimov's
Science
Fiction
Magazine,
Keats
Prize
Poems
(London
Literary
Editions,
Ltd),
Poetry
Northwest,
Prism
International
(Canada),
The
Southern
Review,
The
Southern
Humanities
Review,
The
Southern
Poetry
Review,
The
Southwest
Review,
Writers
Forum,
and
The
Yale
Review,
among
others.
About
Paradise
Square
In
E.M.
Schorb's
novel,
Edgar
Allan
Poe
is
called
upon
to
help
solve
the
shocking
murder
of
a
young
female
street
vendor
in
Manhattan,
a
murder
that
his
former
classmate
at
West
Point
is
accused
of
committing.
His
investigation
leads
him
into
the
struggle
between
a
corrupt
political
regime,
whose
Boss
is
also
the
leader
of
one
of
the
largest
outlaw
gangs
in
New
York,
and
the
reform
party.
Along
the
way,
Poe
assists
Detective
Sergeant
Jonathan
Goode,
and
the
victim's
employer,
Dr
Eleanor
Whitney,
administrator
of
the
Association
for
Improving
the
Condition
of
the
Poor.
The
killer
at
last
is
cornered
in
the
Phoenix
Theatre.
What
happens
next
is
a
bit
of
"Poe-esque"
sleight
of
hand.
Zadie
Smith,
White
Teeth
(Random
House)
Best
Fiction
work
originally
published
in
print
and
converted
to
eBook
form
Zadie
Smith
is
twenty-four
and
a
graduate
of
Cambridge
University.
White
Teeth
is
her
first
novel,
parts
of
which
have
appeared
in
Granta.
ZadieSmith
lives
in
North
London.
About
White
Teeth
Zadie
Smith's
debut
novel
White
Teeth
follows
the
lives
of
two
World
War
II
buddies
and
the
multi-racial
families
they
raise
in
North
London.
Accompanying
Archie
Jones
and
his
best
friend,
a
Muslim
Bengali
named
Samad
Iqbal,
through
their
hilarious
and
poignant
trials
and
triumphs,
Smith
examines
issues
of
faith,
race,
gender,
history,
and
culture.
From
a
Jamaican
hair
salon
in
North
London,
to
an
Indian
restaurant
in
Leicester
Square,
an
Irish
poolroom
turned
immigrant
café,
a
liberal
public
school,
and
a
sleek
science
institute,
the
book
sweeps
along,
marking
the
arrival
of
a
wondrously
talented
writer.
Vilim
Vasata,
Überleben
in
der
Sintflut
(Econ
Verlag,
Germany);
English
title
is
Radical
BrandBest
Non-fiction
work
originally
published
in
print
and
converted
to
eBook
form
Vilim
Vasata
enjoys
guru
status
in
the
world
of
advertising.
In
1966
he
founded
TEAM,
the
nucleus
of
a
new
creative
agency
type
of
the
'60s.
As
a
partner
of
the
agency
BBDO,
he
held
international
and
national
leadership
positions
until
mid-1999.
Since
1988,
he
has
worked
as
Professor
for
Communication
Design
at
the
University
of
Essen.
From
his
Düsseldorf
office
he
specializes
in
the
fields
of
brand
consulting
anddesign.
About
Überleben
in
der
Sintflut
A
fresh
look
at
marketing
and
brand
leadership,
Überleben
in
der
Sintflut
asks:
How
do
you
make
an
impact
in
view
of
the
inflation
of
visual
worlds?
The
beautiful
colored
ad
sections;
are
they
a
waste
of
money?
Vasata
looks
at
the
concepts
of
Image,
Benefit,
Selling,
and
more,
and
explains
"Radical
Brand."
Radically
original,
radical
in
tone,
radically
simple,
radically
emotional,
and
radically
determined,
this
has
become
a
cult
book
for
insiders,
and
everyone
who
wants
to
be
one.
Peter
N.
Yianilos,
eBookMan®
(Franklin
Electronic
Publishers)
eBook
Technology
Award
Peter
N.
Yianilos,
Ph.D.,
is
Chief
Technology
Consultant
to
Franklin
Electronic
Publishers,
Chairman
of
Netrics.com,
and
leader
of
the
Intermemory
Project.
Between
1987
and
1990
for
Franklin,
and
dating
back
to
his
original
1979
designs,
Dr.
Yianilos'
algorithms
and
data
structures
for
advanced
data
compression
and
retrieval,
as
well
as
his
product
concepts
and
designs,
formed
the
basis
for
the
first
commercially
successful
mass-marketed
hand-held
electronic
books,
ranging
from
spellers
and
dictionaries
to
Bibles
and
encyclopedias.
These
products
represent
an
established
segment
of
the
consumer
electronic
market.
Last
year
Dr.
Yianilos
returned
to
Franklin
as
a
special
consultant,
to
define
the
next
step
for
hand-held
electronic
books,
leading
to
the
new
eBookMan
line
of
products.
About
eBookMan
eBookMan
is
a
hand-held
electronic
multi-media
content
device
that
goes
one
step
beyond
other
readers
with
a
USB
port
which
allows
users
to
download
an
organizer,
music
and
audio
books.
Ergonomically
designed,
it
is
the
first
product
that
incorporates
Franklin's
open
but
secure
architecture
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