The Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards

Next year, the Independent Book Publishers Association is launching the inaugural 2013 Benjamin Franklin Digital Awards for electronic book publishing and excellence in innovation. Categories will include best book as app, best enhanced e-book, most creative use of the mobipockets/kindle and/or epub 2.0 (or lower) formats, best adaptation of a complex print design, best e-format "original," best new product and best new technology. An award for innovation will also go to a person, product or organization whose contribution to the field of e-book publishing has been fundamental to the advancement and acceptance of the e-book form