The IPA was dismayed this month when the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) declined to consider the appeal in Authors Guild v. Google...
The IPA has been building on the solid foundations recently laid in the Association's relationship with Latin American publishing, with prominent...
The 31st International Publishers Congress, 9 -12 April, 2016, gathered more than 220 delegates from 41 countries in London's majestic Olympia Conference Centre. This was...
The International Publishers Association (IPA), the world’s largest federation of publishers associations, held an Extraordinary General Assembly in London today (11 April, 2016) where IPA...
The International Publishers Association (IPA), the world’s largest federation of publishing associations, has named the jailed creator of a secularist Saudi website, Raif Badawi, the...
On Sunday, the IPA named jailed Saudi writer and free speech activist, Raif Badawi, the winner of the first IPA Prix Voltaire, formerly the IPA...
Saudi Arabian writer, blogger and free speech activist, Raif Badawi, is currently four years into an extremely severe penal sentence that includes a 10-year jail...
Burmese poet and writer Moe Way, who co-founded Myanmar's The Eras publishing house to give voice to many of his country's unheard poets and writers,...
Bangladeshi publisher Ahmedur Rashid Chowdhury, who was nearly killed by Islamist extremists in October 2015, is among the five finalists for the 2016...
The IPA has thrown its weight behind a growing chorus calling for the Canadian Government to urgently reconsider changes to the country's copyright laws that...
In October 2015 the IPA General Assembly voted to grant the Academic and Creative Publishers Association of Bangladesh (ACPAB) IPA membership. It was a move...
Few people are better qualified to opine on the evolution of copyright than Paul Goldstein, widely held to be one of America's...
The International Publishers Association's Freedom to Publish Committee has named its top five nominees for the 2016 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize. The eventual winner...
Book fairs continue to be an essential driver of the publishing business. In an age of video conferencing and digital networking, book fairs are a...
The IPA has been making further inroads into Latin America after Secretary General José Borghino joined the first ever meeting in Havana, Cuba, of IPA...
The Khaleej Times' Afkar Abdullah reports that Knowledge Without Borders (KWB) has announced the launch of "1,001 Titles," a...
This week's jailing of Egyptian author Ahmed Naji over a book deemed too explicit is further proof that Egypt is squandering the gains of the...
The International Publishers Association (IPA) and seven other world free expression and publishing organizations have co-signed a letter to the Hong Kong Government to urge...
The International Publishers Association today called for the immediate release and protection of a 73-year-old publisher arrested in Dhaka Monday on the grounds that he...
International Publishers Association president Richard Charkin opened the annual, month-long Bangladesh International Book Fair, in Dhaka, this week, stressing that publishing makes its most valuable...
The International Publishers Association today paid tribute to Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild, who died last Friday, aged 56.
...Interviewed recently by Benedicte Page for The Bookseller, Richard Charkin talks about the challenges and achievements of his first 12 months as IPA president.
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At a recent meeting of education publishers at the Guadalajara International Book Fair, Mexico, it was agreed that the IPA should create an Education Publishers...
After 1 April 2017 (not an April Fools’ joke), the overall Japanese Consumption Tax rate in will rise to 10%. The plan is to maintain...
The International Publishers Association (IPA) is very concerned about reports of another Turkish publisher being put in the hands of trustees.
...On 9 November 2015, Secretary General of the IPA, José Borghino, chaired a panel discussion about 'The publisher perspective on the development of new technologies...
The murderous attacks on Bangladeshi publishers and writers over the weekend are direct attacks on the freedom to publish — a fundamental freedom in all...
The 2015 IPA Educational Publishers Forum open meeting in Frankfurt was chaired by Jay Diskey, Chair of this working committee and was held on 16...
New members and a reinvigorated Executive Committee give the IPA a rare impetus going into 2016.
The IPA General Assembly at the Frankfurt Book Fair...