Organizers of the Sharp Writ Book Awards confirmed that they has received threats of legal action by a Kindle™ Author for excluding Kindle™ (and other) eBooks from being nominated for the prestigious 2010 Sharp Writ Book Awards.
While they bring up a somewhat valid point, the book awards organization is a bit melodramatic:
“We decided to exclude e-Books because of practical issues." explained Yashpal Talreja, Coordinator for the BLSIG. “Unfortunately, all the popular e-publishing platforms use proprietary formats; accepting digitally published books for the Awards would have required us to equip each of our judges with a Kindle™, a Nook™, a Sony reader, and an iPad™; and still we will miss some platforms. It is truly astounding to see how much interest the Awards have generated, the books have been pouring in from all over the world."
I'm not sure it's necessary to have an iPad, given the fact it's not even out, but their point is well taken - some smaller authors aren't necessarily distributed on ALL eBook platforms.
On the other hand, all three of those platforms have PC software to read their books. Two support Mac; two support iPhone; two support Blackberry... (where's Android and Windows Mobile? Get off your butts programmers!)
ReplyDelete