The International eBook Award Foundation has named the finalists for the second annual Frankfurt eBook Awards, designed to recognize achievements in the e-book industry. Winners will be announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair later this year. The top awards are the author's grand prizes, with a cash award of $50,000 going to the best fiction and nonfiction e-book.
The fiction finalists are Chris Adrian, Gob's Grief (Broadway Publishing); Alan Furst, The Kingdom of Shadows (Random House); Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless: Tales of Transgression (PerfectBound Publishing); Barbara Shulgasser-Parker, Funny Accent (St. Martin's); Francois Taillandier, Intrigues (Editions 00h00).
The nonfiction finalists are Dwight Allen and William H. Cosby Jr., American Schools: The $100 Billion Challenge (iPublish.com); Paul Clayton, Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (Electric eBook Publishing); George Gilder, Telecosm: How Infinite Bandwidth Will Revolutionize Our World (Free Press); Steven Levy, Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government (Penguin Putnam); David McCullough, John Adams (Simon & Schuster); Eric Nisenson, The Making of Kind of Blue: Miles Davis and His Masterpiece (St. Martin's).
In addition to two $50,000 authors' grand prizes in fiction and nonfiction, there will be two $10,000 prizes awarded for distinguished e-book categories; and a $10,000 technical achievement award for "the advancement and implementation of e-book technologies and features."
