World Book Day: Authors, Publishers and Booksellers Call for International Support
We, the undersigned representatives of the global book industry urge governments all over the world to recognize, support and celebrate the importance of books, learning solutions, and professional and scholarly content by adopting economic stimulus packages to sustain their respective publishing sectors and the value chains that surround them.
Video message from IPA President, Hugo Setzer
These are challenging times. The COVID-19 pandemic is a real global crisis, like we have never seen before. It will have profound implications for our businesses and we will have to adapt.
Publishers act amid COVID-19 pandemic
Publishers around the world have reacted quickly to support homeschooling parents and open access to research around COVID-19. At the same time many parts of the industry want to know whether culture or publishing will be supported by national stimulus packages. The below gathers together publishers and governments’ actions so far.
Australian Publishers’ Parliamentary Book Club
In September 2019, the Australian Publishers Association launched the inaugural Parliamentary Book Club. The Book Club is auspiced by the Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers, which is a bi-partisan group in federal parliament chaired by a representative from both the Government and the Opposition.
Latin American and Caribbean publishing: the focus of new IPA deal with CERLALC
International Publishers Association (IPA) signs agreement with the UNESCO-affiliated Regional Center for the Promotion of Books in Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLALC) to further collaboration on a broad spectrum of issues.
Publishers Circles trial off to a successful start
The World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Publishers Circles initiative has had a successful first trial in Korea with a second round of the performance coaching programme to take place before the end of 2019.
Seven African publishing-related projects to share $170,000 from innovation fund in 2020.
Five innovative African projects have each won a $20,000 grant, while a library restoration initiative is to receive $50,000,and $20,000 will be allocated to Rural library restoration from the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund created by the International Publishers Association and development organization Dubai Cares for activities to promote literacy, book access, indigenous languages, and library restoration in Africa.
Book Tariffs – US and China but India and Nepal, too
The trade war between the US and China risks severely impacting the publishing industry, with the Association of American Publishers (AAP) expressing its concern and consulting members to understand the scale of the potential impact of further tariffs.
US, UK and French publishers’ associations publish industry statistics
Publishing industry statistics for a number of markets have been published over the last month including the USA, the UK, France and a special report on ebooks and audiobooks.
BOP Awards
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 BOP award. IPA’s Vice President, Bodour Al Qasimi was at the award ceremony.