USD 200,000 for the best ideas to get more Africans reaching for a book
A crucial part of IPA's mission is to inform member associations and the wider global publishing community about breaking developments which will impact publishers. We do this through a number of channels. the IPA website, our monthly e-newsletter, press releases and the IPA's dedicated social media feeds.
Nominations are now open for the Accessible Book Consortium’s (ABC) International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing, which recognizes a publisher and a project initiative that each demonstrate outstanding leadership and achievements in advancing the accessibility of commercial e-books or other digital publications for persons who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled.
On May 25, the Kenya Copyright Board in conjunction with partners, Kenya Publishers Association (KPA), International Publishers Association (IPA) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held a well-attended webinar under the theme “The Publisher and Copyright”.
On 11 May, the Nigerian Copyright Council in collaboration with Nigerian Customs Service and Nigeria Police seized two containers arriving at Tincan Port, Lagos, filled with 80,822 copies of pirated books with a market value of over N80 Million (159 000€, 198,000 USD).
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James Taylor
21 September 2021
The term of IPA Past President, Dr Michiel Kolman, on the board of the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) came to an end last month. The ABC is hosted by WIPO and is part of the practical implementation of the Marakesh Treaty. Michiel has been succeed...
Alison Tweed
13 September 2021
Our charity, Book Aid International, works for a world where everyone has access to books that will enrich, improve, and change their lives. Every year, we provide around one million brand new books to thousands of libraries, schools, universities, h...
Gvantsa Jobava
08 September 2021
Happy International Literacy Day!
Michiel Kolman
07 September 2021
It seems that with each passing day there is yet another climate change crisis dominating our news headlines. The world’s scientists have declared that we are fast approaching global tipping points where we can still try and minimize the devast...
Michiel Kolman
22 July 2021
SDG Publishers Compact hits its first 100 signatories.
Gvantsa Jobava
25 June 2021
On 16 June during Bologna Children's Book Fair, Aldus Up, the European book fairs network co-founded in the framework of the Creative Europe programme and coordinated by the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) published two studies on existing surve...
Hugo Setzer
07 June 2021
We may indeed regard the Berne Convention as one of the great charters of literary liberty; it has directly and powerfully influenced all legislation touching copyright matters which has been achieved since it came into force. John Murray, IPA ...
James Taylor
04 June 2021
The SDG Book Club was an idea formed through a unique collaboration between the IPA and the United Nations and involved the full spectrum of the book chain. The idea was simple; to use books as tool to encourage children aged between 6-12 to un...
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