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More Friends Than Foes, Revised Edition Named 2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist
SINGAPORE — Today, World Scientific Publishing is pleased to announce Viruses: More Friends Than Foes, Revised Edition has been recognized as a Finalist in the 23rd annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.
As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best books from university and independent publishers, Foreword Magazine, Inc. hosts an annual awards program each year. Finalists represent the best books published in 2020. After more than 2,000 individual titles spread across 55 genres were submitted for consideration, the Finalists were determined by Foreword’s editorial team.
Winners will be decided by an expert team of booksellers and librarians — representing Foreword’s trade readership — from across the country.
The complete list of Finalists can be found at: https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/finalists/2020/
“The pandemic did not slow down the quality of great books coming from the independent publishing community in 2020. The Finalist selection process this year was one of the hardest our team encountered due to the vast number of excellent submissions,” said Victoria Sutherland, publisher.
“While in typical years, the judging process involves our team gathering and discussing books in real time, this year, we had to read separately, take notes, and converge to discuss the entrants after we’d all taken a turn with them on our own. While at first the change was nerve-wracking, we were delighted to discover that we’re as much in agreement when the process takes place across miles and weeks as we are when we’re sitting face-to-face,” says Managing Editor, Michelle Anne Schingler. “We’re as confident as ever that these Finalists reflect the best of the books that we’ve had the privilege of seeing.”
“We offer our sincerest congratulations to Karin Moelling on being a finalist in the Science & Technology category of the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards,” says Max Phua, Managing Director at World Scientific Publishing. “We look forward to the final results and hope awareness of this timely and fascinating title continues to grow.”
Since 1998, Foreword Reviews has provided trade book reviews of the best titles from independent presses. Its FOLIO award-winning design and editorial content makes the magazine a favorite among librarians, booksellers, and readers — an excellent resource when it comes to purchasing books. Foreword INDIES and the fee-for-review Clarion service complement the online content and print magazine, helping to showcase independent presses and their authors.
About World Scientific Publishing Co.
World Scientific Publishing is a leading international independent publisher of books and journals for the scholarly, research and professional communities. World Scientific collaborates with prestigious organisations like the Nobel Foundation and US National Academies Press to bring high quality academic and professional content to researchers and academics worldwide. The company publishes about 600 books and over 140 journals in various fields annually. To find out more about World Scientific, please visit www.worldscientific.com.
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