In the spring issue of YALS, you’ll find an easy-to-reference listing of all the YALSA award winners and book and media lists announced at the ALA Midwinter Meeting. Since ebooks are on the rise, I thought I’d take a look at which of the winners are currently available as ebooks and which are available for libraries on OverDrive.
Counting the winners and honors of the awards (except for Odyssey) and the top ten books on the Best Fiction, Quick Picks, and Popular Paperback lists, we end up with 50 unique titles. Of those, 37 are available as ebooks that can be purchased through the usual channels including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Google Books. The only titles that aren’t available electronically are non-fiction titles, graphic novels, and older fiction titles. Of the 37 ebooks, 20 are available for libraries to lend in OverDrive, according to their search engine.
As the ebook market continues to grow, I expect we will see more backlist titles become available, while full-color ereaders and tablet computers will allow graphic-intensive books to be offered electronically. Whether or not more ebooks will be available for library lending, however, remains to be seen. I hope that next year, more of the award-winning and noteworthy books honored by YALSA will be available to as many readers as possible in their desired reading format.
Alex Awards
| Title | Author | Publisher | Date | Available as an ebook | Available on OverDrive |
| Big Girl Small | Rachel DeWoskin | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | x | |
| In Zanesville | Jo Ann Beard | Little, Brown & Company | 2011 | x | |
| The Lover’s Dictionary | David Levithan | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2011 | x | x |
| The New Kids: Big Dreams and Brave Journeys at a High School for Immigrant Teens | Brooke Hauser | Free Press | 2011 | x | |
| The Night Circus | Erin Morgenstern | Doubleday | 2011 | x | x |
| Ready Player One | Ernest Cline | Crown Publishers | 2011 | x | x |
| Robopocalypse: A Novel | Daniel H. Wilson | Doubleday | 2011 | x | x |
| Salvage the Bones | Jesmyn Ward | Bloomsbury USA | 2011 | x | x |
| The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt: A Novel in Pictures | Caroline Preston | Ecco | 2011 | ||
| The Talk-Funny Girl | Roland Merullo | Crown Publishers | 2011 | x | x |
Edwards Award
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