 | | IPA laments the passing of Victoria Amelina, another writer lost to war On 1 July, Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian author and war crimes documentarist, succumbed to wounds suffered during the bombing of Kramatorsk on Tuesday 27 June. Read more. | | | |  | | IPA holds enforcement webinar on Z-Library On Tuesday 27 June 2023, IPA's Copyright Committee held a webinar on enforcement featuring the experiences of the publishers' associations in the UK and France with Z-Library. Read more. | | |  | | USA: Publishers, Libraries, Authors and Booksellers Reaffirm 1953 Freedom to Read Statement As censorship threats continue to target libraries, schools, publishers, authors, and booksellers in the USA, associations and other signatories called on the book community to affirm their commitment to the Freedom to Read Statement on its 70th anniversary. Read more. | | | | | | IPA President visits Seoul and Beijing International Book Fairs IPA President, Karine Pansa, travelled to Seoul International Book Fair and Beijing International Book Fair in June 2023 where she was able to meet representative s of IPA members from Korea, Japan and China. Read more. | | | | IPA Vice President visits Kyiv Book Arsenal IPA Vice President, Gvantsa Jobava travelled to Kyiv for the first edition of the Book Arsenal since the war in Ukraine began. Read more. | | | | Charkin: IPA has managed to build an environment of respect between its members Richard Charkin was President of the IPA in 2015-16. Recently, he published My Back Pages: An Undeniably Personal History of Publishing, 1972-2022: a book that recounts his life as a publisher. IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, asked him a few questions. Read more. | | | | Indonesian creators' platform KaryaKarsa a finalist for WIPO Global Awards On 1 June, WIPO announced the 25 finalists for the 2023 edition of its annual WIPO Global Awards, One of the finalists was Indonesian creators platfrom KaryaKarsa. IPA spoke to KaryaKarsa's founder Ario Tamat. Read more. | | | | IPA President to speak at NYU Advanced Publishing Institute The NYU Advanced Publishing Institute (NYU API), run by the NYU SPS Center for Publishing and Applied Liberal Arts (PALA), one of the IPA Academy's Content Developers, is a new executive education course designed for mid to senior-level publishing professionals interested in the latest strategies and business practices in book publishing. Read more. | | | | Celebrations for 10 years since the Adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty On July 12, 2023, WIPO member states and other stakeholders will come together to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled. Read more. | | | | Sustainability - Sustainability takes centre stage for Dutch publishers Rachel Martin: On a bright, sunny day in Amsterdam, Dutch publishers gathered together to be inspired to take action on climate change. Publishers discussed their own actions and challanges. Whilst some were further ahead in their journey for others it was the perfect venue to be inspired and launch the new knowledge platform, www.duurzaampubliceren.nl. Read more. | | | | Accessibiliy - 10 Years After the Marrakesh Treaty in Mexico Ana María Bermúdez: On 21 June, the Mexican Association for Intellectual Property Protection held "Marrakesh Treaty in Mexico. Its Application and Publishing Tools for Accessible Books". The event was hosted by the Mexican Publishers Association (CANIEM) and heard different points of view on the current state of the Treaty in Mexico. Read more. | | | | Accessibiliy - How many ebooks in Europe need an accessible life and how to make it happen? Gautier Chomel: In the context of the European Accessibility Act publishers are producing more and more accessible ebooks. But many titles were produced before and are still on sale. Making backlists accessible can quickly become expensive and challenging when millions of ebooks are concerned. Read more. | | | | Accessibility - Accessible Books Consortium Call for Fellows Laura Brady: The Accessible Books Consortium, a secretariat of the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, has an open call for application to their fellowships. Find out more! Read more. | | | | Diversity and Inclusion - Measuring workplace equity, the work of The Coalition for in Scholarly Communications The Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) is running the second Workplace Equity Survey until 17 July 2023. Simone Taylor, PhD, Publisher and Chief of Publishing Operations at the American Psychiatric Association tells us about the survey. Read more. | | | | Diversity and Inclusion - A conversation with PRH UK's Val Garside Michiel Kolman, Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee, spoke to Val Garside, Human Resources Director at Penguin Random House UK about their work on diversity and inclusion. Read more. | | |  | Now available for all IPA members and their members on the IPA Academy. Contact your publishers association for your access code. | | Publishing Perspectives, The Bookseller, Publishers Weekly, and PublishNews covered IPA Vice-President Gvantsa Jobava words of condolences for the passing of author Victoria Amelina, who received the 2023 Prix Voltaire on behalf of Volodymyr Vakulenko. They also addressed the IPA's announcement of dedicating the Prix Voltaire Special Award to Amelina's memory. Her passing and her relationship to the 2023 Prix Voltaire were also covered by LivresHebdo.
IPA President Karine Pansa's attendance and speech at the Seoul International Book Fair on June 15, 2023 were covered by Publishing Perspectives, The Korea Herald, and Chosun.
Finally, Former IPA President Hugo Setzer gave the opening keynote speech at CONTEC Mexico, addressing sustainability, covered by Publishing Perspectives. | | July
5 July: AIE online seminar on AI in publishing
11 July: WIPO Global Awards Ceremony
12 July: 10th anniversary celebration of the Marrakesh Treaty (online and in Geneva)
August
4 August: Deadline for nominations - WIPO Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Award 2023
September
4 - 6 September: Forum Edita, Barcelona
12-14 September: PLR International Conference
20 – 22 September: Babelica - international online book fair of independent publishing
October
4 – 6 October: Liber, Madrid
18 - 22 October: Frankfurt Book Fair
November
1-2 November: Tokyo Rights Meeting (TRM)
6 – 8 November: WIPO SCCR 44
8-9 November: Kansai Rights Meeting
21 November: IPA General Assembly
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