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Content preview: Last Call for Independent Publishers Hoping to Reach Nationwide Readership through the Industry’s Most Respected Award Deadline Approaching for Independent Publisher Book Awards, the “Best Seller” List Equivalent in Today’s New World of Publishing [...] Content analysis details: (0.4 points, 5.0 required) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- -0.0 SPF_HELO_PASS SPF: HELO matches SPF record -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record 0.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message 0.3 HTML_FONT_FACE_BAD BODY: HTML font face is not a word 0.1 SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING Sender: Nobody --separate123456789 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Last Call for Independent Publishers Hoping to Reach Nationwide Readership through the Industry’s Most Respected Award Deadline Approaching for Independent Publisher Book Awards, the “Best Seller” List Equivalent in Today’s New World of Publishing Traverse City, MI -- The 16th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards (aka The IPPYs) are a critical guidepost for those navigating today's world of publishing, and have become the industry's most competitive and prestigious awards for independently published books. The deadline for 2012 entries is March 15th. For submission details and entry requirements, click on www.independentpublisher.com. Gone are the days when The New York Times Best Seller List provided readers all they needed to know about the best books to read. Many of the nation's top authors have opted out of restrictive publisher's contracts and have chosen to bring their work to market as independent publishers. More than 1.2 million books are being independently published each year, and savvy authors are realizing that in a fast-changing marketplace, independent publishing offers the flexibility required to succeed. Online retailers have also "leveled the playing field" to make purchasing independently published books just as easy as any other published material. A wide array of book review sites, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter all give independent authors and publishers options for promoting their books in places the book-buying public visits every day. Today's consumers want to learn about, shop for, and buy books in myriad ways, and only the nimble business model of independent publishing allows for the adaptability to meet new trends. IndependentPublisher.com and the Independent Publisher Book Awards are the oldest, largest and most respected organizations helping readers find and connect with high quality, independently published books. Each year, nearly 5,000 IPPY Award entries are reviewed and judged by top professionals and critics in their respective fields. Winners are chosen based on criteria including quality of content and design, relevance, and originality. Awards are given in more than 75 categories, including fiction, biography, arts, architecture, children's books, cookbooks, business, and travel. In addition to printed books, awards are also given to downloadable e-books. "IPPY Award winners are consistently top sellers," said Jerrold Jenkins, Director of Jenkins Group, the company behind the IPPY awards. "Knowing that the books have been recommended and recognized by our stable of qualified judges means that readers can select these books with confidence and know that they are getting high-quality products." The Independent Publisher Book Awards were conceived in 1996 as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are intended to bring increased recognition to the exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles released each year. Since the inaugural contest in 1996, over 4,500 books have received IPPY Awards, along with all the recognition, credibility, and increased sales that a book award can bring. * * * * * For more details about the IPPY Awards please contact: Jim Barnes, Managing Editor & Awards Director IndependentPublisher.com / Jenkins Group jim@bookpublishing.com Ph: 1.800.644.0133 x1011 - end - --separate123456789 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
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Last Call for Independent Publishers Hoping to Reach Nationwide Readership through the Industry's Most Respected Award

Deadline Approaching for Independent Publisher Book Awards, the "Best Seller" List Equivalent in Today's New World of Publishing

Traverse City, MI -- The 16th Annual Independent Publisher Book Awards (aka The IPPYs) are a critical guidepost for those navigating today's  world of publishing, and have become the industry's most competitive and prestigious awards for independently published books. The deadline for 2012 entries is March 15th. For submission details and entry requirements, click on www.independentpublisher.com.

Gone are the days when The New York Times Best Seller List provided readers all they needed to know about the best books to read. Many of the nation's top authors have opted out of restrictive publisher's contracts and have chosen to bring their work to market as independent publishers. More than 1.2 million books are being independently published each year, and savvy authors are realizing that in a fast-changing marketplace, independent publishing offers the flexibility required to succeed.

Online retailers have also "leveled the playing field" to make purchasing independently published books just as easy as any other published material. A wide array of book review sites, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter all give independent authors and publishers options for promoting their books in places the book-buying public visits every day. Today's consumers want to learn about, shop for, and buy books in myriad ways, and only the nimble business model of independent publishing allows for the adaptability to meet new trends.

IndependentPublisher.com and the Independent Publisher Book Awards are the oldest, largest and most respected organizations helping readers find and connect with high quality, independently published books. Each year, nearly 5,000 IPPY Award entries are reviewed and judged by top professionals and critics in their respective fields. Winners are chosen based on criteria including quality of content and design, relevance, and originality. Awards are given in more than 75 categories, including fiction, biography, arts, architecture, children's books, cookbooks, business, and travel. In addition to printed books, awards are also given to downloadable e-books.

"IPPY Award winners are consistently top sellers," said Jerrold Jenkins, Director of Jenkins Group, the company behind the IPPY awards. "Knowing that the books have been recommended and recognized by our stable of qualified judges means that readers can select these books with confidence and know that they are getting high-quality products."

The Independent Publisher Book Awards were conceived in 1996 as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are intended to bring increased recognition to the exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles released each year. Since the inaugural contest in 1996, over 4,500 books have received IPPY Awards, along with all the recognition, credibility, and increased sales that a book award can bring.

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For more details about the IPPY Awards please contact:

Jim Barnes, Managing Editor & Awards Director
IndependentPublisher.com / Jenkins Group

jim@bookpublishing.com

Ph: 1.800.644.0133 x1011

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