Washington Book Publishers
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Book Design & Effectiveness Awards
Each spring, WBP sponsors its annual Book Design & Effectiveness Awards competition. These awards recognize, celebrate, and encourage excellence in bookmaking across the greater Washington, D.C. book publishing community. The competition's judges evaluate the excellence of each book's design and its effectiveness in achieving the publisher's goals, meeting the readers' needs, and reaching its market. Prizes are awarded in 15 categoriesfive designs for each of three publisher categoriesplus Best of Show.

A call for entries will be e-mailed in mid-March, with entries due in mid- to late April. The awards reception and ceremony, where all the entries will be on display and the winners announced, is usually held in early June.

To receive a call for entries but not our other e-mails, join our e-mail list and select the "Book awards competition" list.
Recent Winners

2010 Ceremony Program (PDF, 285 kB)
2010 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 4.7MB)

2009 Ceremony Program (PDF, 317 kB)
2009 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 6.5 MB)

2008 Ceremony Program (PDF, 200 kB)
2008 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 2.1 MB)

2005 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 3.8 MB)
2004 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 2.6 MB)
2003 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 1.6 MB
2002 Winners Slideshow (PDF, 1.7 MB)