Ayu Utami: Do publishers still matter for authors?
Award-winning author Ayu Utami tells us why publishing firms must evolve to remain relevant in the "industry of ideas".
Research4Life: boosting access to research in developing countries
195 publishers have already signed up to Research4Life's groundbreaking schemes to boost access to academic and peer-reviewed content in developing-world countries. We spoke to STM's Richard Gedye about the project's rapid growth and successes to date.
Publishers wake up to the possibilities of YouTube
Each month, over a billion people visit YouTube, watching 6 billion hours of video. Now publishers are waking up to the possibilites the channel creates for book discoverability and marketing.
New IPA market report: Southeast Asia
Stan Gunn from Edge Ventures has produced a comprehensive guide to market conditions for publishing across the dynamic ASEAN region.
Crowdfunding: a new financing model for publishing
The IPA interviewed pioneering comic-book publisher Patrick Pinchart about crowdfunding models for publishing.
“The piracy problem is colossal”. Ameena Saiyid, OUP’s woman in Pakistan
We interviewed Ameena Saiyid, Managing Director of Oxford University Press in Pakistan, about how the conditions for publishing are changing in the country.
Bookspotting app mobilises literature
With reading habits shifting online and onto portable devices, a new app has launched which uses GPS technology to tell book-lovers if they're in the vicinity of classic scenes from literature.
“We are perceived as dinosaurs... relics from another era”. How to change publishing’s image problem?
Publishing needs to face up to to its image problem, IPA President YS Chi said during a speech to the UK Publishers International Conference in London.
“In the digital age, we are perceived as relics from another era. No longer guardians of culture, we are now greedy gatekeepers of knowledge." This perception stems from the fact that "the majority of people do not know what publishers actually do.”