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Sony is to sponsor the e-book category prize at next year’s Crimefest.
It is the inaugural year for the prize, will be awarded at the annual Bristol-based crime-writing festival, alongside the Last Laugh Award for best humorous crime novel, sponsored by Goldboro Books, and the audiobook Sounds of Crime Awards, sponsored by Audible.
The prize comprises a Sony Reader Touch Edition and a cash prize, as yet undecided. A Sony Reader will also be awarded in a competition in the Times, the festival’s media partner for 2010. The newspaper will review all of the award winners, with a competition to win all the shortlists plus a Reader.
Crimefest is also opening a competition to recipients of its newsletter to renamed the e-book award, again with a Reader from Sony as the prize. The Crimefest prize-giving will take place at a Gala Dinner on May 22nd.
CrimeFest has also extended the deadline for entries to all three of its prizes from this Friday (11th December) to 18th December.