Publishing: A business and a cultural sector

Publishing is a key global industry. Publishers are important employers, tax payers and investors in a knowledge economy. As an industry we therefore fight for issues that affect the ability of individual publishers to do business in a commercially sustainable fashion.

 

But the work of publishers has a dual nature.

 

Books and other published works are also a part of culture. A national publishing industry cannot be substituted by works from abroad. Where publishers create books they are custodians culture. Where they distribute books they give it new life.

 

IPA therefore believes that the development and support of national publishing industries and the promotion of the international exchange between publishing industries promotes both economic growth and cultural diversity.

 

IPA seeks to promote publishing as an industry through the specific initiatives outlined in the various subsections.