Hachette India’s Managing Director, Thomas Abraham, wrote the fifth of our edited extracts from Publishers on Publishing, which was released during the IPA Congress in New Delhi earlier this year. He talks about disruption and evolution in Indian trade publishing.
IPA’s President, Vice President and Secretary General followed up on their Asian tour of August with a trip to North America in September. The review of the Canadian Copyright Act, a meeting with senior representatives of IFLA, attending the AAP’s General Assembly plus the SDG Book Club were all on the agenda.
At the end of August, IPA’s President and Vice President continued their tour of Asia with visits to IPA members in Japan and South Korea with IPA's Secretary General going to Singapore..
IPA’s Vice-President, Hugo Setzer, attended the Beijing International Book Fair, on a trip where he will also travel to Seoul and Tokyo to catch up with IPA’s President, Michiel Kolman, and join him visiting our members there.
Asoke Ghosh, The IPA’s longest serving Executive Committee member, wrote the fourth of our edited extracts from Publishers on Publishing, which was released during the IPA Congress in New Delhi earlier this year. A founder member of the Federation of Indian Publishers, he shares his views on the future of the Indian publishing industry.
The IPA is very happy to publish a third extract from the book Publishers on Publishing, which was published during the IPA Congress in New Delhi earlier this year. This month we share the contribution of the book’s editor, Nitasha Devesar (Managing Director, Taylor & Francis India), who paints a picture of the Indian market.
The IPA is very happy to publish a second extract from the contribution by the Publishers Association’s Emma House to the book Publishers on Publishing, which was published during the IPA Congress in New Delhi earlier this year.
By Bodour Al Qasimi
When I spoke at Frankfurt Book Fair in October I wanted the audience to understand the core of publishing in the United Arab Emirates and what it means to be an industry leader. But more importantly, I wanted the publishing world to understand UAE publishers and our vision for the future of publishing in our country.