New Leaders & Annual Award Details

Nearly half way through January and the New Year has seen another change of leaders. 'Dusk before the Dawn' has gone into first place in the Readers' Choice Awards and 'The Devil's Trinity' now leads with our Authors!

Details on the annual 'Book Awards' have been released this week with another new initiative to ensure the book buying public will decide on the winner and the cash prize awarded. The Annual Book Award will be made to one title achieving the most votes each year.

Voting

Nominations for the annual award will be restricted to those books winning each month's AmazonClicks Readers' and Author's Choice Awards. As the awards began mid-way through 2008, the first 2009 Awards will include all winners throughout the period until November 2009. Each year after 2009, the qualifying period will be December to November so that we can announce the winner in December each year, before Christmas.

In order to support your favorite title, you will be invited to vote (details on how to vote will follow). It will be one vote per person unless;

1) Any purchases of books from the 'Role of Honour' or 'Special Categories' on the AmazonClicks site (only) will entitle the purchaser to additional votes, one for each book purchased. Proof of purchase will be required e.g. you can forward the email despatch note from Amazon. There will be no limit to the number of additional votes per person which can be used to support the same or a selection of titles. An email confirming your voting entitlement will be issued for every purchaser.

2) Multiple votes other than those issued above, will not count against the nominated title and if deliberate 'spamming' is suspected they may count against the title they nominate.

The Prize Fund

100% of all commissions paid by any associate Amazon company to AmazonClicks.com for books in the Role of Honour or Special Categories between January 1st 2009 and November 30th 2009, will be donated to the Prize Fund for the winning author!

In addition, for 2009 only 50% of all other commssions earned on the Amazonclicks.com store will also be donated to the Prize Fund! This includes books from any section of the site or even books purchased from another Amazon site as as direct result of the 'Search' box on the AmazonClicks site. This means that effectively any book in print can be purchased and half the commission will be donated to the Prize Fund!