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Amazon.com Unveils Semi-Finalists for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award

Wed, 01/16/2008

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www.amazon.com - Amazon Media Hotline 206-266-7180 Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that 836 submissions have moved on to the semi-final round of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, Amazon.com's first writing competition in search of the next great novel. Each semi-finalist has a dedicated detail page for their submission on Amazon.com, where customers can now download a short excerpt of the entry to rate and review. Additionally, customers who rate and review at least 25 semi-finalist excerpts will be entered in the ABNA Customer Review Contest for the chance to win an Amazon Kindle. In the Customer Review Contest, Amazon will select three customer review contestants based on quantity, knowledge of the excerpt and use of language used to rate and review submissions. The three Customer Review Contest winners will each receive an Amazon Kindle, a $2,000 Amazon gift certificate and a Hewlett-Packard printer from Amazon and its partners, Hewlett-Packard, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace.

"We are very excited to enter the semi-final phase of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, though it was no simple task choosing the 836 semi-finalists," said Russell Grandinetti, vice president of Books at Amazon.com. "We're eager to find out what our customers think about the semi-finalists' excerpts, and look forward to giving a Kindle to each of the three customers who provide the most helpful reviews."

This group of submissions will be narrowed down to 100 semi-finalists on February 19^th, and Penguin editors will then select the top 10 contestants who will enter the final round, their decisions informed by the ratings and reviews conducted by Publishers Weekly and Amazon.com critics. Amazon customers will then vote on the 10 selected finalists to elect the winner of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, which will be announced on April 7th, 2008.

The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, Amazon's preferred color print-on-demand vendor, Penguin Group (USA), and CreateSpace. The grand prize winner will be announced on April 7, 2008, and receive a publishing contract with Penguin Group (USA) to publish the winning novel, which includes a $25,000 advance. To rate and review the semi-finalists' submissions for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, visit www.amazon.com/abna.

For more information visit Penguin's ABNA page.

View our previous post announcing the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.