On 3 June the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology (INDU) tabled...
On 19 June 2019 the third list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced....
The IPA’s Educational Publishers Forum held a meeting in Szeged, Hungary, on 28 June, and took the opportunity to tackle concerns about Freedom to Publish...
Alongside the Award ceremony for the 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire, the 2019 Seoul International Book Fair also hosted a two-part seminar on Freedom to...
Catching up on news from April, IPA was proud to support Bologna Children’s Book Fair’s Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the year, the...
At the end of June 2019, IPA’s USA member, the Association of American Publishers, filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as part of...
June 17-18, IPA President, Hugo Setzer and Secretary General, José Borghino, visited Berlin to have high level meetings with the Federation of European Publishers and...
The emotional ceremony for the IPA 2019 Prix Voltaire was held in Seoul, Korea on 21 June where Khaled Lotfy’s brother, Mahmoud, received the prize...
A delegation of the Sri Lanka Book Publishers Association (SLBPA) met Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, Archbishop of Colombo on May 16, 2019 and donated Rs 450,000...
El espacio iberoamericano del libro 2018 (published by CERLALC, an intergovernmental organization based in Bogotá, Colombia) is mapping the book publishing sector in Latin America,...
A high-level IPA delegation, consisting of President Hugo Setzer, Secretary General José Borghino and the Chair of the Educational Publishers Forum (EPF), Wilmar Diepgrond, visited...
At a forum held during the Nigerian International Book Fair in Lagos on 8-9 May, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, spoke about the IPA’s continuing...
Ahead of the IPA’s Educational Publishers Forum meeting in Szeged, Hungary in June, we asked Hungarian publisher Dr Ildikó Török of Mozaik Education about the...
The professional section of the Geneva Book Fair programme featured a session on censorship this year. IPA’s Director of Communications and Freedom to Publish, James...
On 14 May 2019 the AIPI was launched to help the 22 per cent of the Australian population with a print disability read in formats...
The new VAT report published by IPA and the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) covers more countries than ever before and notes recent changes in...
On 15 May the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage tabled the report Shifting Paradigms which recommends clear actions to fix the...
On 29 May 2019 the second list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced. The list of titles in all six official...
At the end of April, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, led a strong team of publishers from the Asia-Pacific region at the first World Intellectual...
Dubai Cares commits AED 2,938,800 (USD 800,000) over 4 years to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration
...The International Publishers Association (IPA) confirms Dr Jessica Sänger, Director for European and International Affairs at Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels (the German Publishers and Booksellers...
Imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled Lutfi has been selected for International Publishers Association’s 2019 Prix Voltaire which supports defenders of freedom to publish.
...From the man who has been described as “the father of African publishing” to the young winner of the Global Teacher Prize 2019, the roster...
On 23 April, World Book and Copyright Day, Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) took over from Athens (Greece) as UNESCO’s World Book Capital City for 2019....
Thai publisher and recent member of the IPA Executive Committee Trasvin Jittidecharak attended a WIPO regional seminar in Seoul in April. As part of her...
On 2 April 2019 at Bologna Children’s Book Fair, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Book Club released its first ever reading list of titles aimed...
The International Publishers Association (IPA) today announces the shortlist for the 2019 IPA Prix Voltaire, which rewards exemplary courage in upholding the freedom to publish...
IPA President Hugo Setzer recently visited Bogotá, Colombia, where he had meetings with IPA member, the Cámara Colombiana del Libro and with the Colombian IP...
In March, WIPO’s Deputy Director General Sylvie Forbin announced the launch of the first mentorship pilot projects within the Publishers Circle initiative.
...At a time when gender balance is a priority for many industries and companies, the publishing industry couldn’t lag behind. Bodour Al Qasimi, IPA’s Vice-President,...
Following the adoption of the Copyright Directive by the European Parliament plenary on 26 March, IPA President welcomed the result and congratulated European publishers for...
Following the announcement of the shortlist for the Accessible Books Consortium Excellence Awards, Following our <a title="We...
The United States of America became the 50thCountry to sign up to the Marrakesh Treaty on 8 February.
...IPA is delighted to confirm the ‘Spotlight on Africa Session’ at London Book Fair where details of the programme and speakers will be confirmed.
...The case of 2018 IPA Prix Voltaire recipient, Gui Minhai, took yet another twist in February as his daughter, Angela Gui, revealed a meeting, brokered...
IPA Secretary General stresses the importance of global publishing statistics.
...Following the announcement of the shortlist for the Accessible Books Consortium Excellence Awards, IPA spoke to one...