By Andrew Richard Albanese, Editor-in-Chief
Switzerland-based getAbstract, a leading provider of book summaries in partnership with participating publishers, has revealed the longlist of nominated publications for its International Book Award for “Business Impact.” Now it its 26th year, the award is presented annually to “outstanding titles” in each of the German and International “Business Impact” categories with the winners to be announced on October 8 at the Frankfurt Book Fair.“At a time when knowledge is increasingly processed by AI systems, making its origins visible matters more than ever,” said Laura Lesum, Rights Director at getAbstract, in a statement announcing the longlist. “For us, that is what this award stands for: publishers who invest in ideas, shape them with care, and bring them to readers, and authors who put their names behind arguments worth engaging with. This year’s longlist recognizes that human contribution—and the knowledge we cannot afford to take for granted.”
The award recognizes works published between June 2025 and May 2026. A shortlist will be announced on September 15.
The nominees for the getAbstract International Book Award 2026 in the “Business Impact” in the International category, include:
- Creative Machines by Maya Ackerman (John Wiley & Sons)
- Creativity in the Age of AI by Deborah Yao, Jerry Wind, and Mukul Pandya (De Gruyter Brill)
- Flash Teams by Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein (MIT Press)
- Four Days a Week by Juliet B. Schor (HarperCollins Publishers)
- Stop Letting Everything Affect You by (Daniel Chidiac)
- The Emotional Intelligence Advantage by Amy Jacobson (John Wiley & Sons)
- The First Meeting Differentiator by Lee B. Salz (HarperCollins Leadership)
- The Shortest History of Innovation by Andrew Leigh, (Black Inc.)
- Trend Leader by Joanna Feeley (Rethink Press)
- What Is Intelligence? by Blaise Agüera y Arcas (MIT Press)
The nominees for the getAbstract International Book Award 2026 in the “Business Impact” in the German category includes:
- Die Multipolarisierung der Welt by Volker Perthes (Suhrkamp)
- Die Stunde der Nashörner by Ansgar Baums and Thomas Ramge (Murmann)
- Erfahrung beschleunigen! by Paul M. Achleitner (Campus)
- Führung im Zeitalter von KI by Richard Butler, Manfred Becking, and Jörg Nitschmann (Carl Hanser Verlag)
- In guten wie in schlechten Zeiten—auch am Arbeitsplatz by Nicole Nolden, Anja Gebhardt, and Fee Vogel (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht)
- KI für kluge Kommunikation by Anita Hermann-Ruess (GABAL)
- Klimaschutz in der Marktwirtschaft by Thieß Petersen (Verlag Barbara Budrich)
- Seminare, Workshops und Meetings mit KI unterstützen by Simone Engelhard and Simon Qualmann, (GABAL)
- Verbindung und Verbundenheit by Karin Kiesele, (Junfermann)
- Weibliche Macht neu denken by Eva Thöne (Hanser Berlin)
Since 2001, the getAbstract International Book Award has sought to honor authors “whose ideas deepen our understanding of society, business, leadership, and the world of work,” and to honor getAbstract’s “longstanding focus on verified expert knowledge and measurable impact.”