Book Awards
The Benefits of Winning a Book Award
Jenkins Group book awards are excellent chances to network within the publishing business and gain visibility to a larger audience. Book awards like the Independent Publisher Book Awards or “IPPY” Book Awards, the Illumination Book Awards, the Living Now Book Awards, and other accolades provide exposure, credibility, and a visual verification of the fact that your book is exceptional.Â
Some of the biggest advantages of winning a book award are that you may cite this honor on your book cover and at speaking/media engagements for added credibility.
Below are the various Jenkins Group book award collections. Explore each award type and enter those that apply to your work!
Axiom Awards
With 22 different categories of awards, the Axiom Business Book Awards are designed to spotlight the year’s best business books and their creators.
The awards were established in 2007 with the goal of celebrating the innovative, intelligent, and creative aspects of the books that make us think, see, and work differently every day.Â
The Axiom Awards offer no global boundaries, allowing participants from every continent to earn further recognition for their English-language titles.
Celebrate with us and experience the greatest business books the world has to offer: yours!
eLit Book Awards
Established in 2009, the annual eLit Awards recognize the ever-growing market of electronic publishing in a wide variety of reader formats.Â
Our independent e-book publishers are encouraged to join the global book awards program highlighting the best in English-language electronic reading entertainment!
The contest is an industry-wide, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the electronic publishing industry.
Illumination Book Awards
With the motto, “Shining a Light on Exemplary Christian Books,” the Illumination Book Awards are designed to honor the year’s best new titles written and published with a Christian worldview.Â
Books have always been powerful tools for helping us understand scripture and to explore various aspects of faith in a complicated world. Started in 2013, the Illumination Book Awards “shine a light” on the best of the many new Christian titles released each year.
Award categories range from Bible Study and Devotional to family-oriented subjects like Education and Children’s Picture Book. The Illumination Book Awards help bring winning authors and publishers the credibility and publicity they need to improve book sales and marketing efforts.
With more and more people searching for inspiration and seeking answers to life’s tough questions, books dedicated to Christian belief and personal development are a fast-growing segment of publishing and bookselling today.
Independent Publisher Book Awards
Established in 1996, the annual Independent Publisher Book Awards honor the year’s best independently published titles.
The “IPPY” Book Awards celebrate those who exhibit the courage, innovation, and creativity to bring about change in the world of publishing. Independent spirit and expertise come from publishers of all sizes and budgets, and books are judged with that in mind.
All independent, university, small press, and self-publishers who produce books written in English and intended for the North American market are eligible to enter titles copyrighted or released within the year. Independent authors using print-on-demand publishing services are also welcome to enter their books into the Independent Publisher Book Awards themselves.
Entrants can choose from over 75 subjects in national categories; regional awards for the United States, Australia, Canada, and Europe; and e-book categories.
The “IPPY” Book Awards were conceived as a broad-based, unaffiliated awards program open to all members of the independent publishing industry.
We define “independent” as (1) independently owned and operated, (2) operated by a foundation or university, or (3) long-time independents that became incorporated but operate autonomously and publish fewer than 50 titles a year. Enter your book today!
Living Now Book Awards
Life moves fast. Home and work, family and friends, school and vacations, exercise and hobbies — it’s time to celebrate the books that help us balance it all!
Established in 2008, the Living Now Book Awards is the only awards program recognizing life’s most relevant book genres in various categories.Â
Candidates for the Living Now Book Awards are books written and designed to help shape our lives through creative ideas and time-saving tips. They live up to the awards’ motto of “Books for Better Living.”
The awards offer entrants incredible benefits like increased recognition, a boost in sales, and sustainable credibility within an ever-growing marketplace.
Pit your title against some of the greatest life books in the industry. Winners are awarded medals and matching emblems for their book’s cover.
Moonbeam Children's Book Awards
Presented by Jenkins Group and Independent Publisher Online, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards increase recognition of exemplary children’s books and their creators and support childhood literacy and life-long reading.Â
Awards are given in over 40 categories covering the full range of subjects, styles, and age groups in which children’s books are written and published today.Â
As with the Independent Publisher Book Awards, Living Now Book Awards, and other Jenkins Group book awards, the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards are open to authors, illustrators, publishers, and self-publishers.
As our society has become more complex, and growing up has become more complicated, children’s book authors and publishers have risen to the occasion, creating books that not only celebrate the joys of childhood but also help kids and families deal with its challenges.
Since being founded in 2006, the Moonbeam Awards have brought the best of these books to the attention of parents, booksellers, librarians — and to children themselves.
Let’s talk about your book.
Whether you’re still working on your manuscript or ready to enter your finished book in an awards program, we can help.
Awards programs offer fantastic opportunities for sales, promotion, publicity, and increased authority.
The Independent Publisher Book Awards (“IPPY” Book Awards), Living Now Book Awards, Illumination Book Awards, and so many others are waiting for you!