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Book chronicling BlackBerry's downfall wins National Business Book Award

Losing the Signal explores the rise and fall of a tech giant.
Jane van Koeverden · CBC ·
BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis pose with their Blackberry devices before the RIM annual general meeting on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in Waterloo, Ontario. The Wall Street Journal reports BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's (TSX:RIM) co-CEOs, Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, are stepping down. They will be replaced by former chief operating officer Thorsten Heins. (The Canadian Press/Dave Chidley)

Jacquie McNish and Sean Silcoff won the $30,000 National Business Book Award for their collaboration, Losing the Signal: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of BlackBerry, on Thursday in Toronto.

The book chronicles key moments in BlackBerry's history - from a critical network crash to the relationship between co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie.

The co-authors are both business journalists, McNish with The Wall Street Journal and Silcoff with The Globe and Mail.

They beat out fellow finalists John Stackhouse, nominated for Mass Disruption: Thirty Years on the Front Lines of a Media Revolution, and William Watson, nominated for The Inequality Trap: Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty.

The National Business Book Award is co-sponsored by PwC and BMO Financial Group.