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Rules

Welcome to the 4th Annual Best Small Business Book Awards by Small Business Trends.  Here are the Official Rules:

ELIGIBLE BOOKS

Books must be business books relevant to small businesses and/or entrepreneurs. No fiction allowed (unless the books are business allegories).

Only books first published between November 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011 are eligible.

Revised editions issued between November 1, 2010 and December 31, 2011 are also eligible. Please note: a reprinting is not the same as a "revised" edition - the book's content must have been revised to be eligible.

We're also accepting business books published solely in electronic form, such as PDF books, Kindle books, Google ebooks, and similar electronic formats. But they must be eBooks that have price tags. FREE eBooks (such as might be used as an incentive to encourage people to sign up for an email newsletter) are not eligible. Why? Because typically "free incentive" ebooks don't have the in-depth content of other business books.

NOMINATING

Eligible books may be nominated until January 31, 2012 at 11:59pm PST (Los Angeles time). Nomination is free -- unlike with other book awards, no nomination fee is required. The following nominating rules apply:

If you do not see your favorite book on the list and you think it meets the eligibility requirements, search for it.

If after searching you do not find the book already nominated then we encourage you to submit it. Books that do not meet the eligibility requirements will be disregarded.

VOTING

The voting period starts February 1, 2012 and ends February 16, 2012 at 11:59pm PST (Los Angeles time). The following voting rules apply:

VOTE ONCE PER DAY -- Limit one vote per person (i.e., IP address) per book, per day. Vote for as many different books as you like that day, but you can vote for the same book only ONCE in a 24-hour period. However, you may come back each day during the voting period and vote again. A day is defined as a 24-hour period. EXAMPLE: If you vote for BookXYZ on February 2, you may also vote for 10 other books that same day if you choose. But you can only vote for BookXYZ again once 24 hours have passed.

ENCOURAGING VOTES -- It is perfectly acceptable to encourage your fans and followers to vote for a book. However, you may not promise monetary compensation in exchange for votes.

IRREGULARITIES -- We reserve the right to disqualify votes that are machine-generated or follow an "unnatural" voting pattern, or show other irregularities, as demonstrated by our server logs. We also reserve the right to disqualify votes if we learn that votes were "bought" for monetary compensation. The decision to allow or disqualify votes will be made by Small Business Trends in our sole discretion, and the decision is final.

AWARDS

TOP 10 WINNERS -- The top 10 vote getters at the conclusion of voting, will each be named to the 2012 winners' list, along with the recognition that comes with being named a 2012 Small Business Book Awards winner. Recognition includes publicity as a winner, as well as the right to display Winner insignia on books, websites, brochures and elsewhere.

CATEGORY WINNERS -- The top 5 vote getters in each category will be named Category Winners. The Categories are: Marketing, Social Media, Management, Economics, Technology, Startup. The Category Winners will receive recognition as a Category Winner, as well as the right to display Category Winner insignia on books, websites, brochures and elsewhere.

Read more about the Small Business Book Awards. Thanks for participating in the 2012 Best Small Business Book Awards, and good luck to the authors! 

Last updated: January 7, 2012.

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