On August 31st, 2021, the newest reading list for the UN Sustainable Development Goals Book Club was announced. The books, which are in all six official UN languages, cover SDG 14 – life below water.
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.
The shortlist for the 2021 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing has been posted. The WIPO led Accessible Books Consortium will unveil the names of the winners at the awards ceremony to be held at the Frankfurter Buchmesse on Wednesday, October 20, 2021.
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
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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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