Microsoft withdraws Ebook award funding for Frankfurt Book Fair.

From the books.Guardian.co.uk/ebooks
over the top headline: \”Microsoft
deals blow to ebooks.
\”

From the International eBook Award Foundation
[iebaf.org] website:

\”NEW YORK, NY, April 17, 2002 – The International
eBook Award Foundation (IeBAF), creator of the Frankfurt eBook Award, announced
today that due to the current business environment, it would discontinue
the annual award and suspend all activities relating to the Foundation.
Therefore, effective April 30, 2002, the Board will resign.\”

The IeBAF\’s \”Children\’s eBook
Award
\” was presented April 10, 2002 at Italy\’s \’Bologna Book Fair.\” 
The winners included,
\”My
First Internet Manual
\” [google] in Italian.

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