[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.

Book cover of My Back Pages by Richard Charkin

Richard Charkin was Vice President of the IPA in 2013-14 and then President in 2015-16. His time at the top included many decisions and events that have made the IPA what it is today. Recently, he published My Back Pages: An Undeniably Personal History of Publishing, 1972-2022: a book that recounts his life as a publisher, from tentative beginnings straight out of university, through some of the most important publishing companies in the English speaking world, to his current incarnation as a one-man-band at Mensch. IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, asked him a few questions.

Crop of the AAP logo

On Friday, June 2, the Association of American Publishers (AAP), Penguin Random House, Candlewick Press, Hachette Book Group, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan Publishers, Scholastic Inc., and Simon & Schuster filed an amicus brief in support of the plaintiffs, patrons of the Llano County Library System in Llano County, Texas, in the case of  Little v. Llano County, a suit that challenges the actions taken by members of the Llano County Commissioners Court, members of the Llano County Library Board, and the Llano County Library System Director, to remove 17 books from the shelves of the public library system.

South Africa copyright reform

Copyright Reform or Reframe?, a monograph published on 20 April by South African publisher Juta, provides a comprehensive legal analysis of most of the new provisions of the South African Copyright and Performers’ Protection Amendment Bills. The authors, all of them attorneys or advocates with specialist practices in the field of intellectual property law – in particular, copyright – contributed to the submission of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law on the Bills to South Africa’s Parliament and the Provincial Legislatures in 2023.

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Michiel Kolman
20 September 2023
Partnership
Publishing industry
Diversity and Inclusion

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. 

Flavia Bravin
18 September 2023
Partnership
Publishing industry
Diversity and Inclusion
In September, one of the most significant book events in Brazil took place, the Rio de Janeiro Book Fair (Bienal do Livro do Rio de Janeiro), with record-breaking numbers of attendees and sales, and for the first time, featuring an internat...
Gvantsa Jobava
08 September 2023
Freedom to publish
Book policy
Literacy
Publishing industry
Diversity and Inclusion
The 8 September marks UNESCO’s World Literacy Day. The theme chosen by UNESCO for this year is Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies. Literacy is the foundation for sustainable an...
Michiel Kolman
28 August 2023
Publishing industry
Diversity and Inclusion
Earlier this month, the Pride season arrived in my hometown Amsterdam where Elsevier is also headquartered. Two weeks of events to celebrate Pride but also a moment of protest as the LGBTIQ+ community is increasingly under attack globally. We started...
Gautier Chomel
25 July 2023
Partnership
Publishing industry
Accessibility
Diversity and Inclusion
Books are playing a major role in spreading ideas, enriching the culture and turning our democracies into flourishing debated places. No matter whether they are used to escape from our reality or to dive into it, access to books remains a fundamental...
Gautier Chomel
21 July 2023
Partnership
Publishing industry
Accessibility
The European Digital Reading Lab (EDRLab) is a digital innovation laboratory by and for the publishing industry. We are an international, non-profit development laboratory, working on the deployment of an open, interoperable and accessible digital pu...
Hugo Setzer
20 July 2023
Partnership
Book policy
Publishing industry
Accessibility
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.

Rachel Martin
17 July 2023
Partnership
Book policy
Publishing industry
No one gets to net zero by themselves. We all recognize the need to work together across the entire book value chain to make our processes more efficient, to reduce waste and recycle and reuse. Yet, one curious area of the book business are book retu...

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