‘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.
IPA welcomes landmark ruling against Sci-Hub and others
The International Publishers Association (IPA) welcomes a ruling by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against websites that illicitly offer millions of research papers and books that are protected by copyright.
IPA welcomes German takedown of online pirated book vendor
German investigators have succeeded in shutting down a Tonga-based website that was illegally selling thousands of downloadable books and journals – the majority of them in German – at rock-bottom prices.
Otunba Olayinka Lawal-Solarin on challenges facing publishing in Nigeria
Otunba Olayinka Lawal-Solarin is Chairman of Literamed Publications and one of Nigeria’s best-known publishers. He told IPA about his experiences in publishing and the challenges facing the book industry.
Fighting online IP crime
Online piracy is a massive challenge for all economies which depend on their creative industries, hurting publishers’ and authors’ income, employees’ jobs and governments’ tax revenues.
In Germany and the US, file hosting services succesfully pursued for copyright infringement
Publishers and collecting societies are successfully sueing online file-hosting services where copyrighted materials are illegally downloaded.