IPA in North America
IPA’s President, Vice President and Secretary General followed up on their Asian tour of August with a trip to North America in September. The review of the Canadian Copyright Act, a meeting with senior representatives of IFLA, attending the AAP’s General Assembly plus the SDG Book Club were all on the agenda.
Kuala Lumpur announced as UNESCO World Book Capital City 2020
Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, has been confirmed as the 2020 UNESCO World Book Capital City to follow Athens (2018) and Sharjah (2019).
IPA in Japan, South Korea and Singapore
At the end of August, IPA’s President and Vice President continued their tour of Asia with visits to IPA members in Japan and South Korea with IPA’s Secretary General going to Singapore..
‘It’s an exciting time for publishing in Africa’
In the second of our series of interviews with speakers at our Lagos Regional Seminar (held in May), we speak to Ama Dadson, founder of AkooBooks, Ghana’s first publisher and digital distributor of African audiobooks.
AAP’s International Freedom to Publish Prize Goes to Azadeh Parsapour
London based Iranian publisher, Azadeh Parsapour, a two-time Prix Voltaire nominee and regular blogger for the IPA, was announced as the recipient of the 2018 Jeri Laber Award, the Association of American Publishers International Freedom to Publish Prize. Read more.
EU Copyright Vote Reaction Round-up
Publishers associations from around the world welcomed the European Parliament’s copyright vote on 12 September 2018.