IPA September Newsletter

IPA NEWSLETTER September 2022 View this email in your browser Pansa and Jobava confirmed as IPA President and Vice President Elect Following online elections held in September, where all IPA Full Members voted, the IPA confirmed the results of a number of decisions and elections. The full election results are below. Read more. Have you registered? Just 35 days until the opening of the 33rd International Publishers Congress, it is not too late to register (for free!) for the Congress and hotel packages. We will have an information session at Frankfurt Book Fair at the JakTent stand (Hall 4.0 H90) at 16:30 on Thursday 20 October to share more details about our fantastic programme. Copyright news Copyright Committee holds regional meetings in Africa and Latin America Copyright was high on IPA's and our members' agenda this September. Our Copyright Committee meeting took place on September 13th and gathered representatives from over 40 countries across IPA's membership. Read more. Publishers and authors condemn disinformation in the Internet Archive case In September 2022, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) released statements in response to Fight for the Future's 'In Solidarity with Libraries' letter falsely claiming that the lawsuit against Internet Archive's open library harms public libraries. Read more. South African Court boosts disabled access to published works On 21 September 2022, South Africa's Constitutional Court delivered a unanimous decision in favour of Blind SA to allow print-impaired persons access to reading materials. Read more. Freedom to Publish News Same Sky Publishing announced as 2022 Prix Voltaire laureate The International Publishers Association's Freedom to Publish Committee has selected Thai publishing house Same Sky (Fah Deaw Kan) to receive the 2022 IPA Prix Voltaire. The Bangkok-based company was chosen from a shortlist of five nominees. Read more. IPA Concern at Hong Kong prison sentences for picture book authors and publishers IPA is very concerned about the degradation of the freedom to publish situation in Hong Kong after five speech therapists, turned authors and publishers, were sentenced to 19 months in prison. Read more. IPA backs Tsitsi Dangarembga following incomprehensible Court Judgement Award winning Zimbabwean author, Tsitsi Dangarembga, given 6 month suspended prison sentence as lengthy proceedings come to an end. Read more. Like Follow Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe IPA at Frankfurt Book Fair 2022 IPA will have a full programme of open and invite-only meetings as well as a dedicated Africa Publishing Innovation Fund seminar at Frankfurt Book Fair this year. Read more. The Path from Literacy to Freedom IPA Blog - Gvantsa Jobava - September 8 is UNESCO's International Literacy Day. After the summer, we should probably begin the fall publishing season by thinking about the positive outcomes that literacy promises us. Read more. WIPO's ABC launches online course on accessible publishing concepts The Accessible Books Consortium has partnered with the DAISY Consortium to produce a new ABC course on accessible publishing. Read more. The Publishing 2030 Accelerator Manifesto On 4 October 2022, the Publishing 2030 accelerator was launched by a group of publishing industry operators, with the support of IPA and FEP, 'to put sustainability at the heart of our business'. Read more. APA releases report on diversity in the Australian publishing industry On 31 August 2022, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) released the Australian Publishing Industry Workforce Survey on Diversity and Inclusion, yielding important insights that will help to push for change in the sector. Read more. New report on the Indian book market Nielsen BookData has partnered with The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) to produce and publish the long-awaited Nielsen BookData India Book Market Report 2022. Read more. IPA Secretary General speaks at PEPCon5 On 16 September, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino spoke via Zoom to delegates at the 5th Philippine Educational Publishers Association (PEPCon5) Conference on the topic Educational Publishing's Impact on Global Student Ranking. Read more. World Book Capital Cities Network meet in Wrocław IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi joined representatives from former, current and future World Book Capital Cities in Wrocław, Poland, to sign the World Book Capitals Network Charter.  Read more. InSPIRe Podcast Series IPA in the news IPA's announcement of Same Sky as the 2022 Prix Voltaire laureate was covered by Actualité, Publishing Perspectives, Livres Hebdo, Giornale Della Libreria, and Publish News. IPA's statement on Tsiti Dangarembga's conviction was picked up in Publishing Perspectives and Actualitté. Publishing Perspectives also covered the results of IPA's elections, which were announced at the 2022 General Assembly. The election results were also covered in Börsenblatt, Actualitté, Livres Hebdo, Wordandshots, PublishNews.br, BookBrunch, and Giornale della Libreria, All About Book Publishing.   You can watch IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi's General Assembly speech here.   Bodour Al Qasimi's latest Medium post is available here. IPA Past President Richard Charkin's regular column for Publishing Perspectives is here. In Case You Missed It The latest editions of our Arabic, French and Spanish newsletters came out in August. Copyright Publishers Weekly – Maria Pallante Copyright Crusader WIPO – Release of the Global Innovation Index Freedom to Publish Publishing Perspectives - Banned Books Week: PEN Calls Out 'a Movement to Censor' WAN-IFRA – Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Gazeta Wyborcza and the Gazeta Wyborcza Foundation The Biblio File podcast – Jiri Nenicka on Samizdat and Resisting Totalitarian Censorship   Sustainability Publishers Association - Publishers Association launches 'Carbon Calculator' to help industry tackle climate change Industry IBBY – IBBY appoints new Executive Director, Carolina Ballester, and honours outgoing Executive Director, Liz Page AAP – AAP StatShot Annual Report For 2021: Book Publishing Revenues Up 12.3% For the Year, Reaching All-Time High of $29.33 Billion To Come October 19-23 October: Frankfurter Buchmesse 19 October: Open Freedom to Publish Committee meeting, Frankfurter Buchmesse 21 October: Open EPF meeting, Frankfurter Buchmesse November 2-13 November: Sharjah International Book Fair 10-12 November: IPA International Publishers Congress in Jakarta 17-18 November: EPF meeting, Lisbon, Portugal 26 November - 4 December: Guadalajara International Book Fair See our full book fair listing on our site here. IPA's websites About the IPA Established in 1896, the International Publishers Association (IPA) is the world's largest federation of publishers associations. The IPA is an industry body with a human rights mandate, whose mission is to promote and protect publishing and raise awareness of publishing as a force for economic, cultural and social development. Working in cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and other supranational bodies, the IPA champions the interests of book and journal publishing at national and supranational level. Internationally, the IPA actively opposes censorship and promotes copyright, freedom to publish (including through the IPA Prix Voltaire), and literacy. CONTACT US: International Publishers Association 23 Avenue de France CH-1202 Geneva Tel: +41 22 704 1820 www.internationalpublishers.org

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