Insight: South-East Asia’s publishing sector

We explored the conditions for publishing in South-East Asia with IPA Board Member, Trasvin Jittidecharak. As she reveals, the overall outlook is positive thanks to favourable macro-economics and demographics, however publishers are experiencing a number of challenges: piracy, threats to copyright and freedom of expression, and an infrastructure & technology shortage which hampers the development of digital publishing.

IPA endorses Thema, new international subject category standard for books and ebooks

With publishers keen to boost the “discoverability” of their works and a growing realisation of the power of metadata to improve merchandising, sales and market intelligence, the International Publishers Association today officially announced its support for the THEMA scheme, a new international subject category standard for books and e-books.

Changing times in academic and educational publishing

The IPA spoke with Peter Phillips, Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press, about the current upheaval in academic and educational publishing, trading conditions worldwide, the future for open access, new customer expectations and the market outlook for 2014 and beyond.