Branchfire co-founder and Tabby Award winner Ravi Bhatt will chair the judges and TabTimes founding editor George Jones will be vice-chair. TabTimes and the Application Developers Alliance are accepting submissions for The Tabby Awards for consumer-focused tablet apps from now until April 15. Here’s more from the release:

Building on the success of last year’s TABBY AWARDS /Business competition, TabTimes – in partnership with the Application Developers Alliance – is now producing the only competition worldwide for the best iPad, Android and Windows 8 tablet apps for consumers. Judges will review submissions in 27 different categories that mirror what consumers might see in an app store.

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The contest will celebrate the top consumer apps in the world of tablets, exploring some of the best mobile content. Here’s more from the company:

The TABBY AWARDS competition is open to consumer applications written for the iOS, Android, and Windows 8 operating systems. The competition covers 27 categories including Entertainment, Games, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle, Music, News, Shopping, Social, Sports, and Video. A panel of experienced app developers, designers and publishers, as well as tech bloggers and journalists are being assembled to judge the competition.

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These judges will help pick the top consumer apps in the world of tablets, exploring some of the best mobile content. Here’s more from the company:

In November 2012, TabTimes presented the first edition of THE TABBY AWARDS. An expert panel of judges picked the top business apps in the tablet ecosystem. In 2013, we’re doing it again, this time with a focus on consumer applications … The judging process is conducted online and you can participate from anywhere in the world. If you think you or someone you know has what it takes to be a real app expert and join our panel of judges, please contact me at michael@tabtimes.com and our award committee will review your application.

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Fourteen tablet apps won the first Tabby Awards for the best business and productivity tablet apps on iPad, Android tablets or Windows 8 devices. You can find links to the apps below–above, winner Ravi Bhatt is pictured.

Here’s more from the release: “Out of almost 100 entrants from the US and other countries, an international panel of independent judges comprised of tablet experts has selected winners in 12 categories. Winners include well-known apps publicly available in Business and Productivity sections of app stores — like Box OneCloud, SlideShark and iAnnotate — as well as apps which have been developed by organizations for their own employees, customers or shareholders – like the Citi Private Bank Mobile App or GE Annual Report 2011.”

The winning apps were revealed at the first Tabby Awards ceremony at the TabletBiz conference & expo in New York City. The award was created by TabTimes, the B2B publication covering the tablet industry. They will hold a competition for consumer apps at a later date.

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Here’s more from the release: “The Tabby Awards recognize the best tablet apps for iPad, Android and Windows 8 tablets based on specific features and utility. The first competition, devoted to business and productivity apps, was open to both native apps and web apps from developers worldwide. Nearly 100 submissions were registered and 27 made the cut to the finals.

The winning apps will be revealed at the first Tabby Awards ceremony at the TabletBiz conference & expo in New York City on November 27. The award was created by TabTimes, the B2B publication covering the tablet industry. They will hold a competition for consumer apps at a later date.

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Here’s more from the release: “A jury of tablet professionals will select the best amongst apps submitted to the competition. The Tabby Awards are platform-agnostic and welcome submissions on the iOS, Android and Windows 8 platforms … Your work or company app may certainly belong to one of our 14 categories. It will be vetted by a jury of 12 tablet professionals, chaired by Alan Masarek, co-founder of QuickOffice – the best selling Business app for iPad.”

The winning apps will be revealed at the first Tabby Awards ceremony at the TabletBiz conference & expo in New York City on November 27. The award was created by TabTimes, the B2B publication covering the tablet industry. They will hold a competition for consumer apps at a later date.

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Dan Poynter has opened submissions for his global eBook awards. Now through June 30, 2011 (midnight, Pacific Time) you can enter your book in the awards. eBooks must have been released anytime before July 1, 2011.

The Global eBook Awards are open to authors, publishers, illustrators and photographers. The contest is open to English language eBooks from authors, publishers, illustrators, photographers, self-published or traditionally published, regardless of company size.

The site does not yet say who the judges are, but it does say that, “eBooks are evaluated as objectively as possible with scores on several items. Judging panels will consider cover design, content quality, layout when not straight text, originality, etc.”

Finalists will be announced July 20, 2011. The award ceremony will be held in Santa Barbara, CA, Saturday, August 20, 2011.

Follow this link to enter.

UPDATE: Entry fees

1–3 entries: $59. USD each. Normally authors, the copyright owner.

4 or more titles: $49. USD each. Normally publishers, the ISBN owner.

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Read about all the 2011 winners here. Follow the links below to read the samples in our literary mixtape. Over the holidays, we made similar mixtapes linking to samples of the Best Books of 2010.

Below, you can find samples for these categories: the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature winner, the Newbery Honor Books, the Randolph Caldecott Medal winner, the Caldecott Honor Books, the Michael L. Printz Award winner, the Printz Honor Books, the Coretta Scott King (Author) Book Award winner, the King Author Honor Books, the Coretta Scott King (Illustrator) Book Award winner, and the King Illustrator Honor Book.

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At The National Book Awards last night, books were being celebrated, but eBooks not as much.

The New Yorker’s Andy Borowitz called the eBooks, “The bastard cousin of the print book” and Patti Smith begged the audience not to give up physical books. In her winning speech she said, “There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.”

Of the winning books only two of them are available as eBooks. The Poetry winner Terrance Hayes’s Lighthead (Penguin Books) is available as an eBook, as is Nonfiction winner Patti Smith’s Just Kids (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers).

The Fiction winner Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule (McPherson & Co.) and the Young People’s Literature winner Kathryn Erskine‘s Mockingbird (Philomel) both lack eBook editions.

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Earlier today, novelist Mario Vargas Llosa won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Here’s more about Llosa (pictured, via) from the Nobel site: “[he was awarded] for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual’s resistance, revolt, and defeat.”

Both Kindle and Barnes & Noble offer The Temptation of the Impossible, the novelist’s critique of Victor Hugo‘s Les Miserables. Here’s more from Booklist: “Vargas Llosa discerns genius in the French novelist’s artistic transmutation of such leaden terrestrial events into a golden utopian fantasy. Readers who cherish Hugo’s powerful novel will value this insightful study.”

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The 2011 National Indie Excellence Awards are open for submissions. The awards are open to print and eBooks by self-published authors, small press and independent publishers.

Winners and finalists will be announced nationally in mid May 2011 around Book Expo America. Prizes include a national book publicity campaign.

According to the NIEA website, the awards are open to “all English language books that are available for sale online and off, both e-books and books in print.” There is a range of categories to enter, including more than 20 sections for fiction. For more information, follow this link.

The deadline for entries is March 31, 2011.

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With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Melville House announced the finalists for its Moby Awards for book trailers. 25 trailers have been nominated in five categories, all of them listed below. The winner will be announced next Thursday night, May 20th, 7pm, at the Moby Awards ceremony. Click here for more info.

Here is the full list of nominees:

Best Low Budget/Indie Book Trailer:

A Common Pornography by Kevin Sampsell
The Electric Church in One Minute by Jeff Somers
Extraordinary Renditions by Andrew Ervin
I am in the Air Right Now by Kathryn Regina
I Lego New York by Chistoph Niemann

Best Big Budget/Big House Book Trailer:

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith
Blameless by Gail Carriger
Going West by Maurice Gee
High Before Homeroom by Maya Sloan
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith

Best Performance by in Author:

Gordon Lish in Collected Fictions
Dennis Cass in Head Case
Thomas Pynchon (voice of) in Inherent Vice
Daniel Handler in Kindle vs. iPad #10
Jeffrey Rotter in The Known Unknowns

Best Cameo in a Book Trailer:

Jon Stewart in I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil…
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Grandmother in Eating Animals
He is Legend’s Schyler Croom in High Before Homeroom
Deepak Chopra in The Karma Club
Zach Galifinakis in Lowboy

Least Likely Trailer to Sell the Book

Pocket Guide to Mischief by Bart King
Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden by Cameron Pierce
Shoplifting from American Apparel by Tao Lin
Sounds of Murder by Patricia Rockwell
True Confections by Katharine Weber

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The Pulitzers were announced yesterday, as GalleyCat reported. To make your eReading life easier, we thought we’d link you to all the available eBooks of the winners.

Fiction: Tinkers by Paul Harding (Bellevue). Kindle. Sony. No B&N.

General Nonfiction: The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy by David E. Hoffman (Doubleday). Kindle. Sony. No B&N.

Biography: The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (Alfred A. Knopf). Kindle. Sony. No B&N.

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Last night, the National Book Critics Circle gave its annual awards to five worthy books at a ceremony at the New School in New York City. (This blogger is on the board of directors of the NBCC). GalleyCat was there, covering the event in real time. eBookNewser wants to take this opportunity to point you to all the available eBooks from the winners.

The fiction award went to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall (Holt), which you can get on your Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader. Remember, too, that this is one of the books Apple features in the iPad unveiling.

The nonfiction award went to Richard Holmes for The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon). You can get it on <a href="“>Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.

The autobiography award went to Diana Athill for Somewhere Towards the End (Norton). Here are the links for Kindle, Nook, and Sony, where it’s very expensive.

The biography award went to Blake Bailey for Cheever: A Life (Knopf). Here’s Kindle, and Sony.

The criticism award went to Eula Biss for Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press). There’s not eBook for it yet, but winning the award might change that.

The poetry award went to Rae Armantrout for Versed (Wesleyan). There is no eBook.

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The Shorty Awards are given every year (this is the second year, actually) for Twitter writers. Last night, author Arjun Basu won the official Literature category the Shorty Awards Ceremony in New York.

As our sibling blog reports, “PRNewser editor Joe Ciarallo covered the event, delivering a report about the festivities on the on the Morning Media Menu.”

Press play on the embedded player below to listen.

Also, some Twitterers who might be familiar to readers of this blog also got community-nominated awards, including international book news guru Jose Afonso Furtado, who won the Shorty Award for the Publishing category.

Read the full report on the Shorties from PRNewser here.

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