IPA’s Director of Communications, James Taylor, spoke about the IPA’s increasingly pivotal role in promoting born-accessible publishing around the world and how adopting accessibility is an opportunity to reach more readers and make better books. The video of the session is not available but viewers can learn more about the European Accessibility Act here.
José Borghino, IPA Secretary General, moderated a seminar entitled ‘Digital Publishing: Business Models and Protection’ in which four entrepreneurs — Steph Duncan, a consultant who has worked at Bloomsbury in the UK; Sven Fund, the creator of a number of businesses around Open Access journals; Mike Hariman, the CTO at Indonesian media giant Gramedia; and Yoris Sebastian, writer, publisher and podcaster — discussed the shift toward digital publishing models around the world, as well as the ways in which digital assets can be protected from piracy. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMZquKCmWIQ&feature=youtu.be