 | IPA response to Ukrainian Publishers and Booksellers Association | | | |  | | Kenya Copyright Law Reform to Sacrifice Creative Industries to Technology Companies The International Publishes Association (IPA) stood alongisde the Kenya Publishers Association (KPA) in being extremely concerned by the Copyright Reform Bill when it passed its second reading. Read more. | | |  | | InSPIRe Symposium lays down roadmap for publishing's resilient future The directors general of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, and of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Daren Tang, opened the Symposium which presented the findings of a series of InSPIRe workshops. Read more. | | | | | One Year Since the Loss of Lokman Slim February 3rd, 2022 marked a year since the assassination of publisher and 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire Laureate co-founder Lokman Slim. Despite international condemnation of his murder and calls for justice, it appears that his family is still waiting for accountability. Read more. | | | World Expression Forum welcomes publishers, adds speakers, launches early bird The World Expression Forum, scheduled for 30 and 31 May, has welcomed the Publishers Association (UK) and German publisher Verlag C. H. Beck as shareholders while announcing a stunning line up of speakers. Early bird rates close on 15 March. Read more. | | | Prix Voltaire 2022 Nominations Open The call for nominations for the 2022 IPA Prix Voltaire is open until 27 March. | | IPA President Continues to Show Support for Publishers Around the World IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi continues her visits to publishers around the world with productive meetings with publishers in Slovenia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. She emphasized the international aspect of her role and reinforced the message that many current challenges facing publishers are global. Read more. | | | IPA Academy to launch on 7 March The International Publishers Association Academy will launch on Monday 7 March 2022 with a series of IPA Talks and in-depth courses from three prestigious institutions. Read more. | | | BOP Shortlist Bologna Children's Book Fair has announced the nominees for the BOP - Bologna Prize for the Best Children's Publishers of the Year. The announcement of the winners will be held during BCBF 21-24 March 2022. See the 2022 shortlist here. | | | Applications open! UNESCO World Book Capital City 2024 The Call for Applications 2024 is open to all cities of UNESCO Member States. All applications must be submitted by email using the standard Application Form no later than 15 April 2022. Read more. | | | Educational Publishers Forum successful 'Virtual Africa' meeting On 18 February, the IPA's Educational Publishers Forum 'Virtual Africa' meeting attracted over 100 registrations from the Americas to Asia who heard presentations from representatives of IPA's African membership. Read more. | | | Senior IPA officials contribute to APNET training workshop On 22 February, IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi, and IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, were featured speakers at an online training workshop aimed at leaders and staff of national publishers associations in Africa organized by IPA Associate Member the African Publishers Network (APNET). Read more. | | | Publishing on the agenda at Africa-Europe Week In the context of the sixth European Union - African Union summit, the Federation of European Publishers organized in collaboration with IPA two online events about publishing in Africa and in the European Union. Read more. | | | IPA in the news IPA's response to an open letter from the Ukraine Publishers and Booksellers Association has been covered in Publishing Perspectives, The Bookseller, Actualitté, PublishNews.es, Publishers Weekly and Nasher.
Publishing Perspectives covered the recent meetings that have taken place between the Slovenian, Egyptian and Arab Publishers' Associations and IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi.
Both Zawya as well as Publishing Perspectives featured the InSPIRe Symposium which took place on February 17th – an event which highlighted the International Sustainable Publishing and Industry Resilience (InSPIRe) plan to build a more sustainable and collaborative global publishing ecosystem.
The IPA's firm response to problematic developments in Kenya's potential new copyright framework, and IPA Secretary-General José Borghino's comments, were covered by Publishing Perspectives.
The reconstruction and reopening of the Samir Mansour Bookshop for publishing – a 2021 Prix Voltaire nominee – was covered in the Khaleej Times. The piece also highlights the personal support for the bookshop which has been shown by IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi.
The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund, and the recent meetings between the Tunisian Publishers Association and the Moroccan Publishers Association with IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi, were the highlight of a piece by Publishing Perspectives.
You can read IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi's, latest Medium post on the InSPIRe Symposium in English and Arabic. | | March
8 March: Commonwealth Book Publishers Association Webinar on Commissioning in Publishing
21-24 March: BB Plus and Bologna Children's Book Fair
> 21 March, 4pm - Taking Stock: Where Does Global Publishing go from here?
> 22 March, 9:15am - The SDG Book Club
> 22 March 2:20pm - Focus on Africa
April
5-7 Aprli: London Book Fair
21 - 24 April: Festival du Livre, Paris
23 April: World Book and Copyright Day
26 April: World Intellectual Property Day - IP and Youth: Innovating for a Better Future
September
29 September: IPA General Assembly
October
19-23 October: Frankfurter Buchmesse
November
2-13 November: Sharjah International Book Fair
10-12 November: IPA International Publishers Congress in Jakarta
26 November - 4 December: Guadalajara International Book Fair
See our full book fair listing on our site here. | | | On 15 June 1896, the first International Publishers Congress was held in Paris. The International Publishers Congress would later become the International Publishers Association. You can find biographies of past Presidents, an IPA timeline, podcasts and a beautiful mini-documentary as well as a centenary book on our anniversary website: | | | | |
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