At the 52nd Frankfurt Book Fair in 2000, the first e-book prize was awarded. This is the first time that the Frankfurt Book Fair has awarded prizes for e-books. Maranis won the best original non-fiction e-book award for his book "When Pride Still Matters"; Schorb won the Best Original E-book Award in Fiction for his book Paradise Square.

There are more than 100 works in the world competing for these two awards. The two American writers can share the prize of 70 thousand pounds.

Smith, a young British writer, won the prize of converting printed novels into e-books and won a prize of 7,000 pounds.

E-book awards are divided into four categories: original novels, non-fiction, printed novels into e-books and printed non-fiction into e-books.

The reason for holding this grand prize is to "affirm the importance and great potential of this new media to writers, publishers and readers all over the world".