{"id":17350,"date":"2018-11-20T12:47:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bvb.fali.se\/?page_id=17350"},"modified":"2026-06-25T13:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:08:31","slug":"jury-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/debestverzorgdeboeken.nl\/en\/jury-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury process & criteria"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jury<\/h2>\n
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Each year Dutch publishers, designers and printers submit over 300 books to be judged. The jury consists mostly of a publisher, two designers and a printer or binder, the fifth jury member being alternately a bookseller, a book historian, a museum curator or a writer on the subject.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Judges are appointed for two judging years spread over no more than four calendar years, subject to an extension of one year spread over no more than two calendar years. Reappointment is permitted five years following the end of a previous appointment. Members of the jury receive from the Stichting a remuneration for their work as judges. The Director of the Stichting acts as non-voting secretary to the judges.<\/p>\n

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The rules and criteria by which the judges are tied are kept to a minimum. The jury members are invited to select books that are excellent in their physical appearance and in doing this they are to keep an eye on the correlation between form and content. Thus each jury is free to develop its own vision, to decide which annual report or desk agenda is to be considered a book and which is not, and to select certain books which it deems not to be missed in spite of certain shortcomings.<\/p>\n

The annual selection consists of 33 books at maximum. In the selection trade books are matched to museum publications, corporate editions to private initiatives. There are five categories from which Best Dutch Book Designs can be selected. They are:<\/p>\n