The Colombian Publishers Association, represented by its executive president, Emiro Aristizábal Álvarez, and the Bogotá International Book Fair, Filbo, represented by its director Adriana Ángel Forero, signed the SDG Publishers Compact, in which they commit to take action to accelerate the achievement of these goals by 2030.
IPA President, Karine Pansa, shares her message for IPA members for the year ahead.
In its 11th edition, the prize is organized by Bologna Children’s Book Fair in partnership with AIE – the Italian Publishers Association and IPA – the International Publishers Association highlights the top children’s publishers of the year in each of the six geographical areas: Africa, Asia, Europe, Central and Latin America, North America, Oceania.
Publishing house Kogan Page of the United Kingdom and Mr. Ashoka Bandula Weerawardhana of Sri Lanka are the winners of the 2022 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing.
At the end of October and in early November, the regional associations for publishers in Africa and then Europe, held their elections to elect new boards and Presidents.
Karine Pansa (Girassol Brasil Edições, Brazil) confirmed as President-elect of the IPA, with Gvantsa Jobava (Intelekti Publishing, Georgia) confirmed as Vice President-elect at third virtual IPA General Assembly.
The Turkish Publishing Assembly is held every two years since 2004 by the Turkish Publishers Association (TPA) in order to closely follow the developments in publishing, to discuss the problems of the sector with national and international stakeholders and to find solutions. 10th Turkish Publishing Assembly was held online on 15-16 June 2022 this year.
Bodour Al Qasimi continued her tour of IPA members to better understand the different challenges and opportunities in different IPA member countries. Her latest stops were in Spain, the UAE and Greece.
