The first edition of the three-day Chennai International Book Fair (CIBF) took place from 16-18 January in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (India) with IPA Vice President, Gvantsa Jobava, attending and speaking on a session dedicated to Making CIBF a truly global event.
IPA President, Karine Pansa, delivered her first speech since assuming her new role with the opening keynote at Digital Book World in New York City. Pansa underlined the importance of data in communicating effectively about the digital book market and urged the sector to work together to bring more consistency to available statistics and to reduce the number of markets where no data is available.
As Cairo International Book Fair begins, one publisher who will not be attending is Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim, a co-Founder and Head of International Book-fairs of Kotopia, an Egyptian publishing house.
IPA President, Karine Pansa, shares her message for IPA members for the year ahead.
The chair opened the last day of SCCR43 noting the sense of excitement in the room and the ‘spicy’ discussions around exceptions and limitations.
Education and research was the opening topic for discussion on day 4 of SCCR 43 with a Presentation on cross-border issues concerning education and research.
Day 3 of the SCCR was dedicated to the discussion around exceptions and limitations focusing mainly on the preservation toolkit.
Day 2 picked up from where day 1 left off with Member States asking questions of the facilitators of the Second Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting Organizations Treaty.
IPA past President, Ana María Cabanellas, shares her first post for the IPA's literacy working group within the Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee.
Two years ago, on this sad day, our publishing colleague, Lebanese publisher, Lokman Slim was assassinated. Lokman co-founded Dar Al-Jadeed publishing house in Lebanon with his sister, Rasha Al Ameer.
