| |  | | IPA concerned at arrest of Thai Publisher Mr. Thanapol Eawsakul, the editor-in-chief of Same Sky Books (Fah Diew Kan) was arrested on 30th June 2022. The Prix Voltaire shortlisted publisher was subsequently released on bail but IPA remains concerned about the future of the serially harassed publisher and his prospects for a fair and open trial. Read more. | | |  | | Mexico: Publishers welcome Supreme Court of Justice judgement on library law On June 22, the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice decided in favour of copyright owners, in a lawsuit over the Mexican law on libraries, which allowed libraries to lend and make available digital copies of books and other copyrighted works obtained through the obligation of legal deposit. Read more. | | | | | | Turkish-Swedish NATO compromise must not sacrifice exiled Turkish publisher Ragıp Zarakolu appears in national news agency reports as being the subject of an extradition request in compromise between Turkey and Sweden over NATO membership. Zarakolu, the 2008 IPA Prix Voltaire laureate, has lived in exile in Sweden since 2012. Read more. | | | | Asian publishers talk Sustainable Development Goals in print and practice The Asian Festival of Children's Content in May featured a session on how publishers who have signed the SDG Publishers Compact are helping to promote the SDGs through their business activity and through their publishing lists. Emma House shares her report on the session. Read more. | | | | IPA reaction to reports of Amazon censoring search results in UAE Following reports in the New York Timesand The Guardian on the filtering of LGBTQ+ related search results, affecting books among other products, Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA's Freedom to Publish Committee reacted. Read more. | | | | IPA Secretary General: 'Publishing is essential and critical infrastructure' At the International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities on 21-22 June, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, gave a keynote speech entitled 'Publishing as Essential, Critical Infrastructure, or Who's Afraid of AI?' Read more. | | | | APIF financing schemes to nurture love of reading and create accessible books for visually impaired readers in 2022 Fund selects five new projects for support in 2022 to foster a love of recreational reading among visually impaired and print disabled children and young people. Read more. | | | APIF and DAISY Consortium giving free expert training in production of accessible books for visually impaired readers The APIF and the DAISY Consortium, a world authority on publishing for people with visual impairments and other print disabilities, are offering African publishers free expert training on the production of accessible works. Read more. | | | How can publisher associations tackle diversity and inclusion? On 25 March 2022, the Publishers Association in the UK published its latest Diversity survey of the publishing workforce. Michiel Kolman, Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee spoke to Dan Conway, the incoming CEO of the Publishers Association in the UK about their longstanding work in this area. Read more. | | | IPA in the news The opening of registrations for the 33rd International Publishers Congress was picked up by Publishing Perspectives, PublishNews. The Jakarta Post also covered the announcement.
Bodour Al Qasimi features in a video by WIPO on her journey in publishing and the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund.
Roger Tagholm published an opinion piece in the Bookseller where he focused on the sponsorship of the Prix Voltaire and encouraged more publishers to back the IPA's freedom to publish prize.
The Africa Publishing Innovation Fund support announcement was picked up in Actualitté and Publishing Perspectives.
IPA's statement on the filtering of LGBTQ+ related search results by Amazon in the UAE was picked up in Publishing Perspectives and Actualitté.
The arrest of of the co-founder of 2022 IPA Prix Voltaire nominee, SameSky, was picked up in Publishing Perspectives, Actualitté, PublishNews.
Publishing Perspectives picked up on IPA's participation at WIPO's 42nd Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights and also covered IPA's participation at the Sao Paolo's Professional Days.
Bodour AL Qasimi's trip to Bosnia was picked up in UAE News.
IPA President, Bodour Al Qaimi, published her latest Medium post (English, Arabic) with a focus on the Freedom to Publish following her visit to the World Expression Forum in Norway. Publishing Perspectives also published a comment piece on WEXFO. | | 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. | | | | |
