Welcome to the January 2020 IPA newsletter The Christmas period brought sad news for IPA's 2019 Prix Voltaire recipient, imprisoned Egyptian publisher Khaled Lotfy, who found out that his publishing house would be excluded from the Cairo International Book Fair and then, on 24 December, that his final appeal against his prison sentence had been rejected. You can read IPA's reactions below. We have announced the first set of speakers of the 33 rd International Publishers Congress with more names to be announced soon. We are delighted to have celebrated Norwegian author Maja Lunde, and South Afican Political Cartoonist, Zapiro, among many others. If you missed the early bird deadline, don't despair. We're also pleased to confirm an extended reduced rate on Congress tickets until the end of February. We have lots of other news for you on Copyright (including the Audible Captions case, Tom Kabinet and lots of consultations), WIPO's hunt for its next Director General to replace Francis Gurry, as well as the SDG Book Club and the UK Publishers Association report on diversity. We're also saying a big thank you and farewell to our treasurer, Werner Stocker, who after 11 years stood down at the end of 2019. We are also very pleased to welcome Thomas Heilmann as our new treasurer. If you think we've missed anything, contact the editor at taylor@internationalpublishers.org | | |  | Distinguished speaker roster for the 33rd International Publishers Congress Award-winning Norwegian author Maja Lunde, satirical South African cartoonist Zapiro and eminent Indian statesman and author Dr Shashi Tharoor will be among the speakers at the 33rd International Publishers Congress, on 28-30 May in Lillehammer, Norway. Read more. | |  | Promote your Activities and Events to Publishing Perspectives' Global Audience Boost your presence at the IPA World Congress in Publishing Perspectives' special print magazine at this event, or reach international publishing professionals with PP's online advertising options. Contact Meike Eckern for details | | | |  | Copyright Round-up: Audible, Tom Kabinet, consultations and London Book Fair Audiobook captions, resale of eBooks, copyright consultations in Brazil, Philippines, India and Ireland and copyright events coming up at London Book Fair. Read more. | | |  | | Khaled Lotfy appeal rejected, Tanmia excluded from Cairo Book Fair On 24 December 2019, Khaled Lotfy's final possible appeal against his five-year sentence was rejected. His publishing house was then excluded from the biggest book fair in Egypt. Read more. | | | | | IPA at London Book Fair The IPA will be involved in a number of events at London Book Fair including a Freedomm to Publish Seminar and the Charles Clark Memorial Lecture alongside a number of internal committee meetings. Read more. | | | Who will be the next WIPO Director General? On 7 January 2020, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) confirmed that it had received ten candidatures for the position of Director General ahead of the 30 December 2019 deadline. Read more. | | | The Publishers Association publishes UK Diversity Report The Publishers Association (UK) has published its 3rd annual report on diversity and inclusion in the UK publishing industry highlighting successes but also where more work needs to be done. Read more | | | Publishers – tell us about you SDG related books! Any publishers who think they have books that would be relevant to this initiative and any forthcoming SDG themes can either contact us directly or add your suggestions in this form. More information for publishers is available here. The SDG Book Club page is here. | | | World Book Capital City 2022 Nominations Open UNESCO has opened nominations for the World Book Capital City in 2022 with a deadline of 25 June. Read more. | | | Werner Stocker retires as IPA Treasurer Since 2006 Werner Stocker, member of the administrative board of Swiss publisher "Schulthess Juristische Medien AG", has been active in the executive committee of IPA. He retired from this position at the end of the 2019. Stocker looks back at 13 instructive years at the heart of the IPA. Read more. | | | Book Your Stand for Seoul International Book Fair 2020 This year, the 26th edition of SIBF will take place in COEX Halls A & B, from 24 - 28 June 2020.
The deadline for the stand applications is February 16, 2020. Visit the official website for details and submit the application form to info@kpa21.or.kr. | | | IPA in the news IPA's work to highlight the case of Khaled Lotfy was picked up in multiple outlets with Publishing Perspectives, The Bookseller, Börsenblatt, Giornale della Libreria, Livres Hebdo and Actualitté (who covered the appeal rejection in December) all covering IPA's reaction to the rejection of Khaled's final possible appeal, and The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Al Etihad Press, Publishing Perspectives, The Bookseller, Livres Hebdo and Actualitté highlighting the exclusion of his publishing house, Tanmia, from the Cairo International Book Fair.
IPA Executive Committee member, Joachim Kaufmann, was interviewed about IPA's work and the International Publishers Congress in Börsenblatt and IPA President, Hugo Setzer, was interviewed by the Mexican PA, CANIEM, for their newsletter.
The latest list of French books in the SDG Book Club was covered in Actualitté.
As the month came to a close we announced speakers for the 33rd International Publishers Congress (see above), which was covered by Publishing Perspectives.
Blog posts | | To Come 14 February: WIPO deadline for AI consultation submissions
14-15 February: EPF meeting, Tbilisi, Georgia
10 – 12 March: London Book Fair
12 – 15 March: Leipzig Book Fair
20 – 23 March: Livre Paris
28 – 30 May: International Publishes Congress | | | | |
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