The Digital Publishing Award Program Names Its 2025 Finalists

In News by Erin L. Cox

As in previous years, artificial intelligence, audio, and edtech are the focus of many 2025 Digital Publishing Award submissions.

Image: DPR Award

By Erin L. Cox, Publisher | @erinlcox

Winners Named October 15 at Frankfurter Buchmesse
Today (October 1), Digital Publishing Report (DPR) has shortlisted 12 finalists in its annual Digital Publishing Award program.

As Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, this is the first year that the previously German-focused prize has been widened to include international submissions. This year, DPR received 80 entries from 16 countries, including Brazil, India, Kenya, Mexico, Tunisia, and the United States.

The jury of international publishing professionals praised the “consistently high quality of submissions,” which reportedly included noteworthy discoveries even for members with significant experience in technology. As can be expected, there were numerous submissions focusing on audio and AI, two topics of currently high interest to the publishing industry. 

The Digital Publishing Award 2025 Shortlist

Product/Business Model sponsored by Bookwire

  • Cornelsen Verlag: AI-Tutor Kim / Duden Learn Attack
  • eKitabu: Digital Story Time
  • Storytel: Voice Switcher
  • Westermann Verlag: BiBox

Process/Technology

  • Bookshop.org: Ebook Platform
  • Circular Software: No-Code Accessibility for Fixed-Layout EPUB
  • Miut Books: EARS
  • Studio 47: HyperMedia AI Newsroom

Start-up sponsored by Beat Technology

  • Biddz: goaudio.ai
  • Editrix Solutions: Editrix
  • Lit X: DTO
  • Shimmr.ai: DTO

Digital Leadership sponsored by Zebralution Digital Publishing
The shortlist for this award will not be published.

Winners of the Digital Publishing Award are to be announced at Frankfurter Buchmesse on October 15 at 3 p.m. on the International Stage between Halls 5.1 and 6.1. 

Publishing Perspectives publisher Erin Cox is to emcee the award event on October 15. More from us on publishing and book awards in the international industry is here, more on the Digital Publishing Award is here, and more on Frankfurter Buchmesse is here.

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About the Author

Erin L. Cox

Erin L. Cox is the Publisher of Publishing Perspectives. She has spent more than 25 years on the business development and promotional side of the publishing industry, working in book publicity at Scribner and HarperCollins, advertising sales and marketing at The New Yorker, and consulting with publishers, literary organizations, book fairs, writers, and technology companies serving the publishing industry. Cox is also the Publisher of Words & Money, a new media site focused on centering libraries in the publishing conversation.