IPA Newsletter October 2025

Frankfurt round up, New Freedom of Expression Prize, Positive Copyright and AI news in Australia, Freedom to Publish stories

IPA NEWSLETTER October 2025 View this email in your browser Frankfurt: IPA launches new Freedom of Expression Defenders Award On Wednesday 15th October, the IPA launched its new Freedom of Expression Defenders Award at an event with Pen International. The launched marked the highlight of a strong week of freedom to publish activities for IPA at the fair. Read more. Frankfurt Roundup IPA and UN Women unite at Frankfurt Book Fair to discuss gender equality In October 2025, UN Women Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, together with the IPA, organized two panel discussions on gender equality and women's rights at Frankfurt Book Fair. Read more.   5th Sustainability Summit spotlights international publishing actions around SDGs The Fifth Sustainability Summit at Frankfurt Book Fair was a key part of a range of events involving IPA, the United Nations and UN Women demonstrating publishing's commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read more.   35th International Publishers Congress in focus at the Frankfurt Book Fair On October 17, 2025 the 35th International Publishers Congress (IPC 2026) was highlighted at a special reception during the Frankfurt Book Fair. Read more. Belonging Matters — A Call to Action for the Publishing and Book Sector Today, leading voices from international organizations across the publishing and book sector come together to launch the statement "Belonging Matters — For Our Sector, Our Societies, and the Stories We Share." Read more. Educational publishers from around the world gather for open meeting IPA's third day of Frankfurt Book Fair opened with our traditional Open Educational Publishers Forum (EPF), which was excellently well attended and covered teacher-publisher relations, the importance of reading for democracies and new curriculum implementation in China as well as a round of updates. Read more. What can we do to resist the attacks on the Trinity of Freedoms? On Thursday 16 October on the Centre Stage at Frankfurt Book Fair, Porter Anderson or Publishing Perspectives moderated a compelling session on three very different regions and how publishers can resist pressures on the freedom to publish, the freedom to read and freedom of expression. Read more. Freedom to Publish Freedom Letters Receives 2025 AAP International Freedom to Publish Award On 3 October, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) awarded its 2025 International Freedom to Publish Award to Freedom Letters, a Russian- and Ukrainian-language publisher operating in exile. The award recognizes a publisher outside of the United States who has demonstrated courage and fortitude in defending freedom of expression. Read more. Georgia: IPA concern at first publisher arrested during Tbilisi demonstrations The IPA is aware of the arrest and sentencing of Georgian publisher Zviad Kvaratskhelia (Intelekti Publishing) to 3 days in prison for blocking Rustaveli Avenue. Road blocking is in contravention of a recent amendment to the Administrative Code of Georgia that made road-blocking and covering one's face punishable by up to 15 days in detention. Read more. USA: How Texas Booksellers, National Retailers, Authors, and Publishers Fought Censorship and Stopped the READER Act On 22 October 2025, a coalition of state and national booksellers, publishers and authors has successfully secured an injunction on the READER Act in Texas. The Act would have required booksellers to age-rate any books they might sell to schools based. Read more. Copyright International and Australian creators welcome Rejection of AI TDM Exception IPA, APA, and Copyright Agency welcome the Australian Government's decision to refuse a Text and Data Mining (TDM) exception into Australian copyright law. Read more. Like Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe IPA on the Move IPA Secretary General speaks at the Riyadh International Book Fair On 2 October, IPA Secretary General José Borghino spoke during the Riyadh International Book Fair in Saudia Arabia, on a panel entitled 'Introduction to the International Publishers Federation and its role at the global level'. Read more. Register Now Other News IPA General Assembly on 25 November The International Publishers Association will hold its virtual 2025 General Assembly on 25 November with elections for Committee seats and decisions on new members among the agenda items. Read more. IPA at IFRRO World Congress Of special interest for publishers at this congress was the successful election of Ana del Arco Blanco, the IPA's candidate for the position of Director representing publishers on the IFRRO Board. Read more. FEP presents European Book Statistics for 2024-25 On 15 October 2025 at Frankfurt Book Fair, the Federation of European Publishers (FEP) presented the European Book Market Statistics 2024–25 to over 200 publishing sector professionals. Read more. Khaled El-Enany nominated by UNESCO's Executive Board for the post of Director-General Following a vote, the members of the Executive Board of UNESCO nominated Khaled El-Enany (Egypt) for the position of Director-General of the Organization. Read more. Blog Posts Has the time come? Is AI weakening reading skills?  Luis González Martín: Reading is an intrinsically human technology and a multitude of other technologies, including those of the digital revolution, have been derived from it. I argue that societies who read must be the starting point for digitisation. Read more.  IPA in the News The new IPA Freedom of Expression Defenders Award received coverage from Giornale della Libreria. as well as both Publishing Perspectives and Publishers Weekly interviewing IPA President Gvantsa Jobava.  Kristenn Einarsson, Chair of the IPA's Freedom to Publish Committee was also interviewed by Publishing Perspectives. UN Women reported on its inaugural participation in the Frankfurt Book Fair alongside IPA.  Both Publishing Perspectives and Actualitté picked up IPA's reaction to Zviad Kvaratshkelia To Come November 5 - 6 November: Sixth Annual Tokyo Rights Meeting, Japan. 5 - 16 November: Sharjah International Book Fair, Sharjah, UAE. 15 - 23 November: Ahmedabad International Book Festival 2025, India. 19 - 23 November: Salon du Livre de Montréal, Canada. 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 22 336 20 55 www.internationalpublishers.org

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