Grants are generally NOT awarded for:

• Books of a specialised nature or written for a limited readership
• Books in the field of health, medicine, pure or applied science, ecology, business, children's books, text books, art books and catalogues, or works of a religious or party political nature
• Books distributed free of charge
• Publishing houses that have existed for less than two years
• (Foreign) copyrights and reprint rights
• Institutional costs including maintenance, payments to budgetary deficits, salaries, and other day-to-day expenses of an organisation, or general appeals to funds
• Research, study, travel or project costs of an individual or private nature
• Collections of papers or proceedings of meetings or conferences
• Magazines and journals
• Publications of non-profit organisations
• Projects that have already been completed
• Translations from another language than the original publication
• Translation into another language than the language of the country of publication
• Print runs lower than 500 copies