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'Galdo's Gift: The Boovie' Receives Four Awards Total, Including Best Book (Overall)

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 3, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Book World announced the winners of the 2018 DBW Awards – including Best Book (Overall), Best Audio Book and Publisher of the Year, as well as 48 other key categories – during a ceremony at the #DBW18 conference on Oct. 2 in Nashville, Tenn. at the Music City Center. Award winners represent books in various categories, publishing tech innovations and leading technology companies, as well as industry professionals and authors.

"Digital Book World is honored to recognize best-in-class achievement across the wide world of publishing, and we're thrilled to celebrate these distinguished award winners with the publishing and technology community," said Digital Book World Executive Producer Bradley Metrock. "Congratulations to all of the award winners – we're proud to showcase your work."

One of the honorees, Galdo's Gift: The Boovie, received four awards total, including: Best Book (Overall), Best Book (Fiction), Best Book (Children's) and Best Book (Interactive Fiction). Galdo's Gift is a hybrid book-movie for children.

During the ceremony, Digital Book World also inducted two industry veterans into DBW's new Publishing Hall of Fame – Marie Dutton Brown and Len Edgerly, both of whom attended the event. Brown is the iconic editor and literary agent who successfully championed diversity in publishing over the course of her 50-year career, and Edgerly is the creator and host of The Kindle Chronicles, a podcast which has aired every week, without disruption, for more than a decade.

Winners of the 2018 Digital Book World Awards include:

Publisher of the Year

• Dark Horse

Trade Publisher of the Year

• Macmillan

Children's Publisher of the Year

• Disney Publishing

Educational Publisher of the Year

• A Book Apart

Corporate Publisher of the Year

• NASA

Academic/Scholarly Publisher of the Year

• Princeton University Press

Religious Publisher of the Year (Tie)

• Kube Publishing
• LifeWay

Independent Publisher of the Year

• Milkweed Editions

Publishing Executive of the Year (Tie)

• Jeff Bezos, Amazon
• Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks

Publishing Entrepreneur of the Year

• Matt and Melissa Hammersley, Novel Effect

Publishing Commentator of the Year

• Joanna Penn, Author

The DBW Medal for Leadership in Diversity

• Morgan Jerkins, Author

Innovation in Accessibility

• Amazon Alexa

Best Mobile Application

• Novel Effect

Best Alexa Skill (Publishing + Storytelling)

• Short Bedtime Story, Webguild

Best Google Action (Publishing + Storytelling)

• Storycastle

Best Use of Blockchain in Publishing Technology

• Publica

Best Use of AR/VR in Publishing

• Devar

Best Use of AR/VR in Storytelling

• Supersaurs

Best Marketing Campaign

• The President Is Missing (Bill Clinton, James Patterson)

Best Book Cover Art

• Destruction of Man (Abraham Smith)

Best Use of Multimedia in Book Marketing

• Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World (Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner and Rupert Stadler)

Best Use of Podcasting in Book Marketing

• Macmillan

Best Use of Social Media in Book Marketing

• 7th Grade Revolution (Liana Gardner)

Best Use of Voice Assistants in Book Marketing

• Simon & Schuster (Stephen King Library skill)

Best Use of Data in Publishing

• Biblio / Virtusales

Best Agency Representation in Publishing

• Susan Rabiner Literary Agency

Best Book (Overall)

• Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)

Best Book (Fiction)

• Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)

Best Book (Non-Fiction)

• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jerkins)

Best Book (Anthology)

• High Growth Handbook (Elad Gil)

Best Book (Architecture)

• Naturally Animated Architecture (Kevin Nute)

Best Audiobook

• What Happened (Hillary Rodham Clinton)

Best Book (Business)

• Hit Refresh (Satya Nadella)

Best Book (Children's)

• Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)

Best Book (Economics)

• Broken Pie Chart: 5 Ways To Build Your Investment Portfolio to Withstand and Prosper in Risky Markets (Derek Moore)

Best Book (Essays)

• Feel Free: Essays (Zadie Smith)

Best Book (Fine Arts)

• Why Bach? An Audio-Visual Appreciation (Daniel Brown)

Best Book (Health / Medical Science)

• Family Nurse Practitioner Certification Intensive Review, Third Edition: Fast Facts and Practice Questions (Maria T. Codina Leik)

Best Book (Horror)

• Gilchrist: A Novel (Christian Galacar)

Best Book (How-To)

• Final Cut Pro X 10.4 - How It Works (Edgar Rothermich)

Best Book (Inspirational)

• Grace for the Unexpected Journey (Deborah Barr)

Best Book (Interactive Fiction)

• Galdo's Gift: The Boovie (Trevor Young and Eleanor Long)

Best Book (Mathematics / Science)

• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl)

Best Book (Poetry)

• The Carrying (Ada Limon)

Best Book (Politics)

• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (Michael Wolff)  

Best Book (Religious)

• Longing For Motherhood (Chelsea Patterson Sobolik)

Best Book (Science Fiction)

• Artificial Condition (Martha Wells)

Best Book (Short Stories)

• The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories (Fiza Pathan)

Best Book (Social Issues)

• This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America (Morgan Jerkins)

Best Book (Technology)

• Autonomous Driving: How the Driverless Revolution Will Change the World (Andreas Herrmann, Walter Brenner, and Rupert Stadler)  

Best Book (Textbook)

• CollegeScope (Human eSources)

Digital Book World (DBW) is the annual gathering of the wide world of publishing. Next year's event will also take place in October (dates TBD) in Nashville – the new permanent home for the conference.

To learn more about Digital Book World, visit http://www.digitalbookworld.com. Follow Digital Book World on Twitter: @DigiBookWorld or via #DBW18 and #DBW19.

About Score Publishing
Score Publishing, organizer of Digital Book World, helps people, organizations and creators find their voice and become better interactive content producers. Score Publishing produces books in physical form, as well as next-generation digital, audio and interactive books. The company is based in Nashville, Tenn. Visit https://www.scorepublishing.us.

SOURCE Digital Book World