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THE 2015 INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDs are open and will accept entries until March 10, 2015.
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Conducted annually, the Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles from around the world. The awards are intended to bring increased recognition to the thousands of exemplary independent, university, and self-published titles published each year. Celebrating our 19th anniversary this year, we are now accepting entries for books released between January 1, 2013 and March 10, 2015.

Click here to download our guidelines and entry form as a PDF document (156KB)

The “IPPY” Awards were conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry, and are open to authors and publishers worldwide who produce books written in English and intended for the North American market.

We define “independent” as:

Independently owned and operated
Operated by a foundation or university
Long-time independents that became incorporated but operate autonomously and publish fewer than 50 titles a year.

The world’s largest book awards competition offers:

Over 75 subject categories in National awards
Regional awards for the United States, Canada, Australia/New Zealand, and Europe
E-Book Awards with fiction, non-fiction, children’s and regional categories
Winners receive a celebration party in New York City, medals, stickers, certificates, national publicity in major trade publications including Publisher’s Weekly and Shelf Awareness.

http://www.independentpublisher.com/ipland/IPAwards.php