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Library regeneration in Nairobi

The first round of funding in IPA’s Africa Publishing Innovation Fund, backed by Dubai Cares, included support for Book Bunk, the regeneration project of the...

IPA features in Guadalajara Industry Dialogues programme

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...

IPA at 5th Arab Publishers Conference

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...

IPA’s Educational Publishers Forum at Virtual Lisbon

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...

Sustainable cities and communities – Books for Sustainable Development Goal 11 announced

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...

IPA Presents Two Panels about Digital Publishing and Accessibility at Jakarta Festival

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.

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The impact of EdTech on educational publishers

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...

LIBER 2020 Panel Examines the Influence of the IPA

A stellar panel came together virtually at LIBER 2020 to talk about the global importance of the IPA. 

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IPA Annual Report 2019-2020

On the occasion of IPA's General Assembly, IPA published it's Annual Report for activities from the end of 2019-2020.

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From Response to Recovery

On the occasion of IPA's 2020 General Assembly, the IPA releases a new report From Response to Recovery: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Global...

Al Qasimi and Pansa confirmed as IPA President and Vice President Elect

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...

European Accessibility Act (EAA): a chance for publishers

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...

Guadalajara, Mexico to be UNESCO World Book Capital 2022

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...

Frankfurt Open Educational Publishers Forum inspires and educates

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,...

Future of Books discussed at Seoul International Book Fair

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. 

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Reading Matters – focus on reading and literacy at Virtual Frankfurt Book Fair

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...

Official Handover for 33rd International Publishers Congress

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...

IPA Launches new State of Publishing Reports

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...

State of Publishing Reports

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...

SDG Publishers Compact Launch

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,...

Vietnamese Publisher Arrested

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.

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Federation of European Publishers elect new leadership

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...

Spotlight shines on Portuguese and Brazilian children’s books to highlight sustainability and equality through new SDG book Club

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...

Jakarta to Host 33rd International Publishers Congress in November 2022

International Publishers Association selects Jakarta as the destination for the 33rd Congress and confirms the dates of 10-12 November 2022.

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IPA’s Moscow Call for Action

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...

IPA Calls on Brazilian Government to Resist VAT Changes for Books

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...

The Freedom To Publish – an interview with Jean Yves Mollier

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...

Amazon market power under the spotlight in USA

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...

International and European Publishers Condemn Violent Crackdown in Belarus

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...

IPA Welcomes End of Kuwaiti Book Censorship Committee

A report in ArabLit confirms that Kuwait’s National Assembly has amended the law on media and publications that previously required all books...

Hundreds Pitch Ideas to IPA to Confront Africa’s Remote Education Challenges

Geneva, 10 August 2020 - The International Publishers Association (IPA) has received a huge response to its call for proposals to tackle Africa’s remote education...

Italian books in translation: special grants available

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

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FEP report focuses on impact of COVID-19 on European Publishers

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...

IPA Concerned over Reports of Hong Kong Book Bans

The International Publishers Association is extremely concerned by reports in the GuardianGlobal Times and The Wall Street Journal among others that books by prominent protester, Joshua...

Viet Nam, Move Beyond Repression

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...

Publishing in India during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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...

Publishing in the Arab World during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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...

Publishing in China during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The latest of our IPA in Conversation with … sees Li Pengyi, Vice President of the Publishers Association of China (PAC), tell us about how...

IPA calls for international donations to save murdered publishers’ legacy

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...

Caribbean Publishing and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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...

IPA to support Nielsen in conducting an extensive survey into International Book Prize awareness and attitudes.

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...

Coronavirus doesn’t stop Copyright Consultations

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...

First virtual Educational Publishers Forum meeting

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...

Publishing in Australia and New Zealand: two cases, one region

On Thursday 2nd July at 1pm CEST, IPA President talks to Lee Walker, President of the Australian Publishers Association and Julia Marshall, President of the...