IPA featured in two sessions during the Guadalajara Industry Dialogue sessions looking at the Mexican and international publishing markets as well as the influence of...
The 5th Arab Publishers Conference, organized by the Arab Publishers Association, featured a keynote from IPA President-elect, Bodour Al Qasimi, and a panel featuring IPA Secretary...
On 27 November, IPA held the latest virtual Educational Publishers Forum, this time ‘in’ Lisbon with presentations about the situation in Portugal, a conversation with the Head of Education at Microsoft...
On 10 November, the eleventh list of books for the UN SDG Book Club was announced. The list of titles in all six official UN languages, aimed at...
Jakarta Content Week, or Jaktent, a new annual celebration of innovation and creativity in the Indonesian capital played host to two IPA seminars in November.
...On 11 November, IPA Secretary General José Borghino moderated an international panel discussion around the impact of EdTech platforms on educational publishers during the COVID...
A stellar panel came together virtually at LIBER 2020 to talk about the global importance of the IPA.
...The International Publishers Association General Assembly on Monday 23 November was marked by the results of the association’s elections but also featured the publication of...
On the occasion of IPA's General Assembly, IPA published it's Annual Report for activities from the end of 2019-2020.
...Bodour Al Qasimi (Kalimat Group, UAE) confirmed as President-elect of the IPA, with Karine Pansa (Girassol Brasil Edições, Brazil) confirmed as Vice President-elect at first ever virtual...
With the 2025 deadline for the implementation of the European Accessibility Act approaching fast, experts from across publishing gathered at the virtual Frankfurt Book Fair...
The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, has named the Mexican city Guadalajara World Book Capital for the year 2022, following the recommendation of the...
The last of IPA's series of events during the virtual Frankfurt Book Fair saw the spotlight turn to educational publishing with speakers from the OECD,...
On 16 October 2020, the IPA Secretary General José Borghino participated in a panel discussion during the Seoul International Book Fair’s Rights Center’s opening seminar.
...IPA partnered with LitCam and Aldus Up to organise a session at the Virtual 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair looking in detail at our new Reading...
During the 2020 Virtual Frankfurt Book Fair the IPA held the handing over ceremony for the 33rd International Publishers Congress which will be held in...
On Thursday 15 October at 11am the International Publishers Association launched a new set of seven reports looking at key aspects of the international publishing...
Players from across the publishing industry are being invited to pledge their commitment to the future by signing a new Sustainable Development Goals Publishers Compact,...
Pham Doan Trang, the Vietnamese author, journalist and co-founder of Liberal Publishing House, the 2020 IPA Prix Voltaire laureate, was arrested on 6 October.
...IPA extends it's congratulations to the new leadership at FEP and would like to thank and congratulate Rudy Vanschoonbeek for all of his work as...
Global Goals Week sees book sector organisations from Brazil and Portugal come together and commit to augmenting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Book Club...
Find out more about IPA's full line-up of events at Frankfurt Book Fair from 14-18 October 2020.
...International Publishers Association selects Jakarta as the destination for the 33rd Congress and confirms the dates of 10-12 November 2022.
...The Covid-19 pandemic has damaged the book industry worldwide, slashing revenues by up to 80% in some markets.* The easing of restrictions in places has...
The International Publishers Association (IPA) calls on the Brazilian government to support its book industry and immediately drop plans to impose a Value Added Tax...
On 24 September, Jean Yves-Mollier’s « Interdiction de Publier » (Banned from Publication, published by Double Ponctuation) is released in France. IPA spoke to the author about...
IPA member, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) joined the Authors’ Guild and American Booksellers’ Association in cosigning a letter highlighting Amazon’s market dominance in...
The International Publishers Association (IPA) and the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) call on Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko to cease his brutal campaign of violence...
A report in ArabLit confirms that Kuwait’s National Assembly has amended the law on media and publications that previously required all books...
The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has allocated up to 400,000 euros in funds to promote Italian books abroad through translations.
...FEP has recently concluded an important stock-taking exercise based on information shared by their members which paints a picture of how the COVID-19 csis has...
The International Publishers Association is extremely concerned by reports in the Guardian, Global Times and The Wall Street Journal among others that books by prominent protester, Joshua...
The International Publishers Association has co-signed a statement calling on Vietnamese authorities to cease their crackdown on independent media and those who express dissent and to protect...
On Monday 20 July, watch the second part of a fascinating discussion between IPA President, Hugo Setzer, and Francis Gurry, the Director General of the...
On Tuesday 14 July at 1pm CEST, Shweta Khurana, Editor of All About Book Publishing, talks to IPA President, Hugo Setzer and the President of...
On Monday 13 July, at 1pm CEST, watch IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, talk to Bachar Chebaro, Secretary General of the Arab Publishers Association about...
The international Publishers Association has contributed 1,000CHF to kickstart an international appeal for support as the lockdown in Bangladesh puts the legacy Faisal Arefin Dipan...
At 1pm CEST on Tuesday 7 July, IPA Vice-President, Bodour Al Qasimi talks to Latoya West-Blackwood, Chairman of the Book Industry Association of Jamaica about...
Nielsen Book has been commissioned to undertake an industry-wide survey to investigate the international landscape and perception of book prizes across publishing, bookselling, writing, media and academic...
Despite many countries being in lockdown for a number of weeks to limit the spreading of the COVID-19 Pandemic, governments in Brazil, China, Kenya, India...
IPA's Educational Publishers Forum (EPF) held its first virtual meeting on 19 June 2020, because members were unable to travel to Istanbul as planned due...