Regulations - Indie Italian Book Jacket Award

Indie Italian Book Jacket Award is the title of an Initiative (hereinafter “the Initiative”),

organised by BolognaFiere S.p.A., in partnership with BolognaBookPlus, brand extension of

Bologna Children’s Book Fair (“BCBF”), an exhibition organised by said BolognaFiere to be

held from 31 March to 3 April 2025 at the Bologna Exhibition Centre.

 

The theme initiative includes the evaluation and award of the best cover of a self-published

Italian fiction and of a self-published Italian non-fiction work not aimed at an audience of

children or YA.

 

Self-publishers from each country born before 31 December 2007 and who have published

their work before 30 June 2024 through the most important national and international self-

publishing platforms (for e.g., Amazon KDP, Lulu.com, Youcanprint, Ilmiolibro.it, Passione

Scrittore etc.) can apply for their cover.

 

Participants must fill in the online Participation Form and submit - in digital format – the

cover of the self-published book, made in black and white or in color and created with any

technique, in accordance with the modalities indicated in Art. 4.

 

Participation shall imply full acceptance of these Regulations.

Covers of any kind and size are allowed.

 

Digital file (to be submitted as indicated in Art. 4) must have the following formats:

File: JPG or PNG

Resolution: 300 DPI

 

Covers already published with other publishers or with editorial titles will not be taken into

consideration.

 

The authors therefore undertake to present an original cover and guarantee that the work is

self-published and has not been previously published by any publisher under penalty of

exclusion.

 

Registration and submission by the participants of their file shall be carried out exclusively

on the Bologna Children's Book Fair website www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com

 

Participants must register to the Reserved Area of the website

https://www.bolognachildrensbookfair.com/, fill in the Participation form and upload

online the image of his/her cover.

 

Registration and file submission shall be accepted FROM 16th September 2024 TO 14th

February 2025.

 

Entries submitted after the deadline of 14th February 2025 shall not be accepted or taken

into consideration. 

 

The covers submitted no later than 14th February 2025 - that meet the Regulation

requirements will be examined and the winners selected from the submissions by an

International Jury of experts. The decision of the Jury shall be final.

 

The jury will identify a first group of finalists within which the two winning covers of the

Initiative (the best cover of a self-published Italian fiction book and the best cover of an

Italian self-published non-fiction book not aimed at an audience of children or YA) will be

chosen.

 

The two winning covers will be presented as part of the 2025 edition of BBPLUS and ample

prominence will be given to the winners and to the finalists.

 

It is specified that the winners are not the illustrators (which will also be mentioned) but the

self-publishers authors of the works that have chosen and commissioned the illustration.

 

The winners residents in non-European territory will be awarded a contribution to support

the trip to Bologna on the occasion of the 62nd edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

 

The winners of the "Indie Jacket Award" will be given the opportunity to exhibit and sell

their selected works free of charge in the Self-Publishers Bookshop at the Salone del libro of

Turin from 15th to 19th May 2025.

 

Participants declare that there are the self-publishers of the works and of the illustrations or

that they hold the relevant copyrights, and hereby expressly release BolognaFiere from any

liability and claims by third parties in relation to the contents of the illustrations. 

 

BolognaFiere may, at its sole discretion, cancel the Initiative or change its dates, without

incurring any liability whatsoever towards the participants. 

 

BolognaFiere undertakes to process the personal data of candidates in the Initiative

pursuant to the provisions of Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679, the guidelines and provisions of

the Italian Data Protection Authority, and any other applicable legislation.
For further

details on the processing of personal data by BolognaFiere, please refer to the information

sheet attached to the Initiative Participation Form, which must be duly completed.

 

On applying, candidates accept all rules and regulations that BolognaFiere may issue.

Relations between participants and BolognaFiere shall be governed by Italian law. Any

dispute arising with regard to the Initiative shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Italian

judicial authorities with exclusive competence of the Court of Bologna.