Submissions are now open for the 18th edition of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award. Across a range of prizes, the Award celebrates literary, nonfiction and academic works in the fields of humanities and social sciences that engage with Arab civilisation and culture.
On 25 July, a coalition including Texas bookstores, national booksellers, authors and publishers filed suit in the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, challenging a new Texas law that would require independent bookstores, national chain bookstores, large online book retailers, book publishers and other vendors to review and rate millions of books and other library materials according to sexual content if those books are sold to school libraries, and to do so according to vague labels dictated by the state without any process for judicial review.
[Update on 22 August 2023: The deadline for nominations has been extended to Friday, September 1st, 2023.]
Nominations are currently being accepted for the ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing. This award acknowledges exceptional leadership and accomplishments in promoting the accessibility of commercial e-books or other digital publications for individuals who are blind, visually impaired, or have other print disabilities.
IPA Vice President, Gvantsa Jobava attended the 11th International Book Arsenal Festival in Kyiv, the first to be conducted since the war in Ukraine began.
Michiel Kolman, Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee spoke to Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association (UK) about their Inclusivity Action Plan and their past work on diversity and inclusion.
I write this post while returning home from a board meeting of the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) and the celebration of the Marrakesh Treaty’s 10th anniversary at the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, in Geneva.