Since 1956, Bookbuilders of Boston has sponsored the New England Book Show to recognize, encourage, and celebrate excellence in bookmaking. Eligibility for acceptance of entries has become more flexible and has been expanded to include a broader spectrum of submissions. Publishers, printers, designers, artists, and students are urged to submit their best efforts of the past year.* Jury members will consider design, composition, paper, printing, and binding. The 55th Annual New England Book Show will be held in spring 2012 in Boston. The show will include the publishers’ choices as well as the jury’s selection of books, multimedia products, and covers and jackets, as well as two recently added categories, Book Arts and Student Work, and two new categories, Digital Books and Publishers’ Sales Catalogs.

Entry Deadline February 6, 2012

Eligibility
In the past entries had to be produced by a New England publisher. Entries now will be accepted from any publisher, supplier engaged in designing, producing, or manufacturing books, artist who has produced a book as an art object, or student who has produced a book for a class; the only criterion is that the entrant be in one of the New England states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, or Vermont. Entries need not have been produced exclusively in New England, nor is membership in Bookbuilders of Boston required. Directories, calendars, periodicals, pamphlets, and promotional pieces are not eligible.

Publication Dates
Entries must have been published or produced between September 1, 2010, and December 31, 2011. Previously submitted books are not eligible.

Specifications
Books
Texts of 32 pages or more, hardbound or with a flexible cover. If fewer than 32 pages, the submission must be hardbound. Books will be judged as complete products, including the interior and cover/jacket.

Revised Editions
Revised editions are accepted only if they have undergone substantial redesign, new composition, and page makeup.

Multimedia Products
Multimedia entries will be judged on design, content, packaging, documentation, and ease of use.

Covers/Jackets
Books are judged as complete products, including interior and cover/jacket. Publishers may also submit covers/jackets separately by following the directions on the “Covers/Jackets” section of the entry form.

Categories
Books (use Book Entry Form)
$30 Members / $60 Non-members
If a book contains a disk or CD that should be included in judging, please enter as multimedia. If entered as a book, the disk or CD will not be judged.

College
Texts intended for college classroom use, including vocational and adult education. Entry may be an individual title or a series of books.

El-Hi
Texts intended for elementary or high school classroom use. Entry may be an individual title or a series of books.

Juvenile
Children’s books not intended for classroom use, including picture books and young adult titles.

General Trade, Illustrated
Heavily illustrated books of general interest, sold primarily in bookstores.

General Trade, Non-Illustrated
Trade books without an emphasis on illustrations.

Professional, Illustrated
Heavily illustrated technical and scholarly texts.

Professional, Non-Illustrated
Professional books without an emphasis on illustration.

Pictorial
Books with an emphasis on fine arts or produced with extraordinary budgets.

Reference
Books intended for reference and consultation only, illustrations optional.

Covers/Jackets (use Cover/Jacket Entry Form)
$25 Members / $55 Non-members
Covers and jackets can be submitted only for College, El-Hi, Professional, and General Trade books. See descriptions in those categories above for additional information.

Multimedia Products (use Multimedia Entry Form)
$30 Members / $60 Non-members
Products include electronic media, games, overhead transparencies, loose-leaf binders, multi-component kits, and any products that do not conform to previous descriptions. If a book containing a disk/CD is entered as a multimedia product, judging will include the disk/CD.

Book Arts (use Book Arts Entry Form)
$25 Members / $55 Non-members
Aesthetic interpretations of the book as an art object.

Student Work (use other category forms, but flag as Student Work)
$5 Members / $10 Non-members
Books and/or covers/jackets completed as undergraduate or graduate student design work. Must include a copy of an official student I.D. from 2009–2010.

Digital Books (use Digital Books Entry Form)
$30 Members / $60 Non-members
Hardbound or paperback books of at least 32 pages produced entirely on a digital press.

Publishers’ Sales Catalogs (use Publishers’ Sales Catalogs Entry Form)
$30 Members / $60 Non-members
Seasonal catalogs of any length.