IPA news January 2023

New President's message, Prix Voltaire call for nominations, South Africa Copyright update and more

IPA NEWSLETTER January 2023 View this email in your browser IPA President, Karine Pansa, shares her message for IPA members and the book sector for the year ahead. Read more. South Africa Copyright Update The controversial Copyright Amendment Bill D-Bill 2017, passed by the National Assembly in September 2022, continues its legislative path before being submitted to the President for his signature. Read more. IPA launches call for nominations for 2023 IPA Prix Voltaire On 10 January IPA launched the call for nominations for the 2023 IPA Prix Voltaire for exemplary courage in upholding the Freedom to Publish and enabling others to exercise their freedom of expression. Deadline for nominations: 24 February 2023. Read more. Like Follow Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe Open Freedom to Publish Forum  The impact of war on the freedom to publish Tuesday 7th February at 13:00 CET, we will hold an open Freedom to Publish meeting on the impact of war on the freedom to publish focusing on the example of Ukraine. See the programme and register here. IPA Concerned about Egyptian Publisher missing since Riyadh International Book Fair As Cairo International Book Fair began, one publisher not attending was Ahmed Mahmoud Ibrahim, of Kotopia, an Egyptian publishing house. Read more. UNESCO International Day of Education – Investing in People BLOG: On the occasion of the UNESCO International Day of Education IPA President, Karine Pansa, shared her thoughts on the role of educational publishers. Read more. (in Spanish) IPA at Cairo International Book Fair IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, and the Chair of the IPA's Copyright Committee, Jessica Sänger, attended Cairo International Book Fair where they met publishers associations from the Arab world and spoke at the Intellectual Property Rights Conference. Read more. IPA President underlines importance of data at Digital Book World IPA President, Karine Pansa, addressed the delegates at Digital Book World in the opening keynote. She underlined the innovation of the sector but the absence of data for many markets, particularly around digital book publishing. Read more. IPA Vice President attends inaugural Chennai International Book Fair IPA Vice President, Gvantsa Jobava, as well as IPA EC member, Pranav Gupta, both spoke as Channai Book Fair went international. Read more. Strong IPA Presence at London Book Fair The 2023 London Book Fair Mains Stage programme has been announced featuring IPA's past and current Presidents, Bodour Al Qasimi and Karine Pansa, as well as sessions dedicated to global copyright and the freedom to publish. Read more. IPA in the news The new year brought change in the leadership with Bodour Al Qasimi's term finishing on December 31st 2022. She spoke to Publishing Perspectives about her Presidency and Nasher and Gulf Today both looked back at her remarkable work as IPA President. Publishing Perspectives also interviewed new IPA President, Karine Pansa, about her plans for her two-year term. Pansa also spoke to Chris Kenneally at the Velocity of Content podcast. IPA was prominent in the first edition of FrontList in 2023 with interviews with Karine Pansa, new IPA Vice President Gvantsa Jobava and IPA Past President Hugo Setzer.   Karine's keynote speech at Digital Book World attracted coverage from Publishing Perspectives and Publishers Weekly and Diastixo (Greece) as well as featuring in the Velocity of Content podcast review of the week in publishing. Pansa's message to members and the book sector was also covered in Chytomo (Ukraine) and the presence of Gvantsa Jobava at the Chennai International Book Fair was picked up in All About Book Publishing and FrontList.   The Prix Voltaire call for nominations was covered broadly (Publishing Perspectives, Publishers Weekly en Espanol, Actualitté, Livres Hebdo, Giornale della Libreria, PublishNews.es, PublishNews.br, Magazine.it).Publishing Perspectives also picked up on our December 22 newsletter story on the release of 2019 laureate, Khaled Lotfy.   IPA's presence at Cairo International Book Fair was picked up in Al Qahera. Our statement on missing Egyptian publisher, Ahmed Diouf, was covered in Publishing Perspectives, The Bookseller, and Livres Hebdo.   Subscribers to the journal Publishing Research Quarterly will have been able to read the article The International Publishers Association Freedom to Publish Committee—Challenges and Accomplishments. In December ALDUS UP reported on data presented at the 33rd International Publishers Congress. IPA past President, Richard Charkin, continues his series of articles on Publishing Perspectives. In Case You Missed It The latest editions of our Arabic, French and Spanish newsletters came out in August. Copyright Publishers Weekly : Will Artificial Intelligence Make Authors Irrelevant? Business Daily Africa: Piracy of school books costs publishers Sh200m annually Velocity of Content: A copyright Reboot for Robots WIPO: Call for entries for 2023 WIPO Global Awards   Freedom to Publish Inside Higher Education: The Integrity of History Education ALDUS UP: Fake news and hate speech on the web – what role do politics and the public play? UN OHCHR: Call for submissions to the thematic report of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression to the UN Human Rights Council: "Freedom of Opinion and Expression and Sustainable Development - Why Voice Matters"   Education UNESCO: Let Afghan girls and women learn!   Diversity and Inclusion The Bookseller: PA launches new industry-wide Inclusivity Action Plan   Sustainability Green Book Alliance: Webinar recording - GBA Sustainability Series: An introduction to your carbon footprint   Literacy Publishing Perspectives: Germany's Börsenverein Joins Urgent Calls for a 'National Reading Plan'   Accessibility Inclusive Publishing: Inclusive Publishing 2022 Annual Review World Blind Union: WBU calls for increased access to braille on World Braille Day   Data and Statistics Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels: Book market results 2022: Consumer spending reluctance is also evident in the book market Publishing Perspectives: Italy's Book Market Up 13.3 Percent Over 2019 Publishing Perspectives: Poland Tells Publishers: VAT on Books Must Stay   Industry Association of American Publishers: Julia A. Reidhead (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.) Elected Chair, AAP Board of Directors Association of Canadian Publishers: Jack Illingworth to succeed Kate Edwards as ACP Executive Director British Academy: Submission Open for The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding To Come February 6 February: Deadline for IPA membership applications 24 February: Deadline for Prix Voltaire nominations 25 February - 5 March: New Delhi Book Fair March 6-9 March: Bologna Children's Book Fair 13 - 17 March: WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights 22-26 March: Salon du Livre de Genève  April 18-20 April: London Book Fair 21-23 April: Festival du Livre de Paris May 22-23 May: World Expression Forum (WEXFO) June 14-18 June: Seoul International Book Fair (registration open) 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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