New IPA market report: Southeast Asia
Stan Gunn from Edge Ventures has produced a comprehensive guide to market conditions for publishing across the dynamic ASEAN region.
Crowdfunding: a new financing model for publishing
The IPA interviewed pioneering comic-book publisher Patrick Pinchart about crowdfunding models for publishing.
“The piracy problem is colossal”. Ameena Saiyid, OUP’s woman in Pakistan
We interviewed Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, about how the conditions for publishing are changing in the country.
Bookspotting app mobilises literature
With reading habits shifting online and onto portable devices, a new app has launched which uses GPS technology to tell book-lovers if they’re in the vicinity of classic scenes from literature.
“We are perceived as dinosaurs… relics from another era”. How to change publishing’s image problem?
Publishing needs to face up to to its image problem, IPA President YS Chi said during a speech to the UK Publishers International Conference in London.
“In the digital age, we are perceived as relics from another era. No longer guardians of culture, we are now greedy gatekeepers of knowledge.” This perception stems from the fact that “the majority of people do not know what publishers actually do.”
Insight: South-East Asia’s publishing sector
We explored the conditions for publishing in South-East Asia with IPA Board Member, Trasvin Jittidecharak. As she reveals, the overall outlook is positive thanks to favourable macro-economics and demographics, however publishers are experiencing a number of challenges: piracy, threats to copyright and freedom of expression, and an infrastructure & technology shortage which hampers the development of digital publishing.
Changing times in academic and educational publishing
The IPA spoke with Peter Phillips, Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press, about the current upheaval in academic and educational publishing, trading conditions worldwide, the future for open access, new customer expectations and the market outlook for 2014 and beyond.
Jeddah knight: science-fiction publishing, Saudi style
It isn’t easy being a science-fiction publisher in one of the most conservative societies in the world.
The Transformation of the E-Book Market
IPA President Youngsuk “Y.S.” Chi spoke about the transformation of the e-book market at the 79th IFLA World Library & Information Congress in Singapore.