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Belarusian publishers Nadia Kandrusevich (Koska) and Dmitri Strotsev (Hochroth Minsk) jointly awarded the 2025 International Publishers Association’s Prix Voltaire at the award ceremony World Expression Forum in Lillehammer, Norway.
IPA will have a full programme of open and invite-only meetings at Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Note this is a provisional schedule. All dates, times and venues are subject to change. More events will be confirmed soon.
In June, two expected judgements were delivered by the United States District Court Northern District of California relating to Generative AI training and copyright.

The 35th International Publishers Congress

The Malaysian Book Publishers Association is the proud host of the 2026 International Publishers Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The Malaysian Book Publishers Association is the proud host of the 2026 International Publishers Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

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