With a view to promoting the translation of Italian authors into foreign languages, the Centre for Books and Reading (Cepell), an independent institute of Italy’s Ministry of Culture, has issued a call for grants allocating a total of 650,000€. The amount of each grant will vary from a min. of 500€ to a max. of 5,000€, depending on the length of the translation and other criteria laid out in the call.
President of International Publishers Association shares IPA’s vision with Turkish publishers for the recovery of the pandemic-affected book industry and to ensure its sustainable future
On 22 July, AFP reported that 5 members of a speech therapists union had been arrested for sedition and had their accounts frozen after publishing a series of children’s books.
A joint statement issued on 16 July by the Publishers Association of New Zealand and the New Zealand Society of Authors expressed both organisations’ shock at the announcement that the National Library of New Zealand would hand over hundreds of thousands of books from its collection to the notorious pirate site, the Internet Archive (IA).
SDG Publishers Compact hits its first 100 signatories.
