Full IPA Frankfurt Programme, Moscow Call for Action, SDG Book Club, Global Goals, International Literacy Day,

Greetings readers,A different kind of Frankfurt Book Fair is rapidly approaching a...

IPA NEWSLETTER September 2020 View this email in your browser Greetings readers, A different kind of Frankfurt Book Fair is rapidly approaching and we are excited to have partnered with the fair to provide a full programme of events covering so many vital aspects of the industry. We will also have two major launches during the week of the fair: The State of Publishing reports   The SDG Publishers Compact. Check our schedule of events below to find out more details.  We would normally hold committee meetings and our general assembly at Frankfurt and we will be sad not to meet our members face to face this year. Our General Assembly is now scheduled for Monday 23 November as an online event. IPA members should check their inboxes for updates on the details. But this month's newsletter isn't just about Frankfurt. We are delighted to have confirmed the host city of our next International Publishers Congress - Jakarta. You can also check out our stories on the Moscow Call for Action, the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund, Global Goals week and a new Lusophone SDG Book Club and VAT worries in Brazil. We hope to have many of you in the audience for our Frankfurt sessions.  Frankfurter Buchmesse and IPA partner to host a series of events on current issues and trends in publishing  Freedom to publish, diversity in the book industry, European Accessibility Act and Global Publishing Industry Report 2020 / With: Prix Voltaire laureate 2020 and speakers from IPA, WIPO, FEP, European Commission and Amnesty International. Read more.  IPA selects partners following guidelines overseen by our Executive Committee to ensure our impartiality and continued commitment to our values. More information here. IPA Frankfurt Schedule  Find out more about IPA's full line-up of events at Frankfurt Book Fair from 14-18 October 2022. Read more.  IPA's Moscow Call for Action   The Covid-19 pandemic has damaged the book industry worldwide, slashing revenues by up to 80% in some markets.* The easing of restrictions in places has not neutralized the threat of the book sector's collapse in some countries. Read more.  Jakarta to Host 33rd International Publishers Congress in November 2022 International Publishers Association selects Jakarta as the destination for the 33rd Congress and confirms the dates of 11-13 November 2022. Read more.    Spotlight shines on Portuguese and Brazilian children's books to highlight sustainability and equality through new SDG Book Club  Global Goals Week sees book sector organisations from Brazil and Portugal come together and commit to augmenting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Book Club with a collection of lusophone books about the different goals for children. Read more.  A year of progress: the Africa Publishing Innovation Fund in 2020 The IPA's Africa Publishing Innovation Fund (APIF), established in 2019 to support literacy, book access, indigenous publishing, and library restoration in Africa, is currently vetting over 300 applications for support under its second annual round of grants. Read more.  IPA Calls on Brazilian Government to Resist VAT Changes for Books  The International Publishers Association (IPA) calls on the Brazilian government to support its book industry and immediately drop plans to impose a Value Added Tax (VAT) on books. Read more.  International Literacy Day - IPA VP Joins Global Book Alliance Webinar IPA's Vice-President, Bodour Al Qasimi joined a Global Book Alliance webinar on how the business of books can advance literacy. Joined by speakers from USAID, Google and eKitabu it was a fascinating session.  Read more.  Federation of European Publishers elect new leadership IPA extends it's congratulations to the new leadership at FEP and would like to thank and congratulate Rudy Vanschoonbeek for all of his work as FEP President. Read more.  Global Goals Week: This Global Goals Week we published a post every day looking at a publishing industry initiative connected to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Find out more by clicking on the images below: IPA in the news IPA's partnership with Frankfurt Book Fair was covered by Publishing Perspectives who also covered WIPO's partnership with the fair. Publishers Weekly wrote a piece on the virtual form of the 2020 Frankfurt Book Fair.  Publishing Perspectives covered the announcement of Jakarta as IPA's next Congress destination in 2022.   IPA's comments on the dissolution of Kuwait's censorship committee was picked up here (in Korean).    Beijing news highlighted the speech of IPA president Hugo Setzer at the China Cultural Industry Development Summit Forum.  Different outlets picked up the collaboration between Brazil and Portugal to expand the SDG Book Club to children's books in Portuguese, see PublishNews, Correio Popular and Publishing Perspectives.    The speech of our president Hugo Setzer at the 2020 Nigeria Virtual Book Fair received attention, notably relating to the path toward digital publishing by the Guardian and Vanguard.  The Moscow Call for Action was picked up in Book Brunch and Actualitté. IPA's call for Brazil to resist VAT on books was picked up in Publishing Perspectives, Actualitté and PublishNews In Case You Missed It: Copyright: Hugh Stephens: Canada's First Site Blocking Order: What is Driving the Objectors? Hugh Stephens: A Day of Reckoning is Coming for Google, Facebook and other major Online Platforms that access News Content without Payment: Will Canada be Next? Freedom to Publish: BookRiot: California School District Considers Classic Book Ban Geneva Solutions: The Digital Watch Observatory Rebooted WAN-IFRA: Golden Pen of Freedom Awarded to Colombian Journalist Jineth Bedoya Lima. Diversity: Publishing Perspectives: Aspen Institute: 'Changing the Narrative' on Diversity in Publishing Tax The Bookseller: Amazon corporation tax nudges up 3% as profits soar Educational Publishing: Books+Publishing: Educational Publishing Awards 2020 winners announced Literacy African Publishers Network: Statement for World Literacy Day       To Come: See our website for a full list of upcoming book fairs:   https://www.internationalpublishers.org/our-industry-menu/book-fairs   IPA in Conversation with...  Click below to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the book sector in Africa, ASEAN, Europe, Latin America and more. Our COVID-19 page includes actions of publishers and governments worldwide.  Like Follow Forward Subscribe 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   Copyright © 2020 International Publishers Association, All rights reserved. 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