33rd International Publishers Congress Round-up | | | |  | | Same Sky awarded IPA Prix Voltaire in Jakarta One of the highlights of the 33rd International Publishers Congress was the awarding of the 2022 IPA Prix Voltaire with co-founder Thanapol Eawsakul travelling to Jakarta to receive the prize. Read more. | |  | | Asoke Ghosh receives inaugural IPA Champion Award Indian publisher, Asoke Ghosh was awarded the inaugural IPA Champion Award to celebrate his decades of service to the international publishing community to help the IPA achieve its goals on behalf of the publishing industry. Read more. | |  | | Reflections on the 33rd International Publishers Congress IPA President-elect, Karine Pansa, shares her thoughts on the 33rd International Publishers Congress: What a feeling - the exhilaration (and a little relief ) ... Read more. | | |  | | Guadalajara, Mexico confirmed as host of 34th International Publishers Congress The 33rd International Publishers Congress closed with the announcement of Guadlajara, Mexico as the host of the next Congress in 2024. Read more. | |  | | Brazilian Book Chamber receives inaugural IPA Innovation in Publishing Award The Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL) was awarded the inaugural IPA Innovation in Publishing Award for its project Conexão Livraria. Read more. | |  | | Congress Summary The 33rd International Publishers Congress was jam-packed with two days full of discussions, powerful keynotes, award ceremonies and a vibrant atmosphere of publishers coming together from around the world. Read more. | | | | | | Russia: New 'Homosexual Propaganda' Law threatens freedom to publish Following reports in international media (The Guardian, Le Monde) the International Publishers Association is extremely concerned about a new bill which, if adopted, will prohibit the 'promotion of non-traditional sexual relations'. Read more. | | | | Pirate website Z-Library taken down and alleged operators arrested On Wednesday 16 November, in federal court in Brooklyn, USA, an indictment and a complaint were unsealed charging Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering for operating Z-Library, an online e-book piracy website. Read more. | | | | Calls for UK Government to back meaningful anti-SLAPP protections to defend media freedom A model anti-SLAPP Law drafted in consultation with leading media lawyers and industry experts on behalf of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition and supported by over 70 leading editors, lawyers, publishers, and journalists has been sent to the Secretary of State for Justice, Dominic Raab. Read more. | | | Educational Publishing Focus | | | IPA inaugurates a new regional EPF group At the fringe of the IPA Congress, on 12 November, a selection of IPA members gathered near the Congress venue in central Jakarta. Read more. | | | | Portuguese Education Minister speaks at IPA Educational Publishers Forum (EPF) in Lisbon On 17-18 November, IPA's Portuguese member, APEL, hosted a meeting of the EPF attracting 30 people from countries including Brazil, Poland, Norway, the UK, Hungary, Spain and France. Read more. | | | | LatAm EPF meets during the Guadalajara Book Fair On 27 November, the Latin American arm of the IPA's Educational Publishers Forum held a meeting in Mexico during the Guadalajara Book Fair. Read more. | | | | ABC International Excellence Awards Announced Publishing house Kogan Page(UK) and Mr. Ashoka Bandula Weerawardhana (Sri Lanka) are the winners of the 2022 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing for their respective achievements in the field of accessibility to benefit people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print-disabled. Read more. | | | | Regional Publishers Associations in Europe and Africa elect new Presidents and boards At the end of October and in early November, the regional associations for publishers in Africa and then Europe, held their elections to elect new boards and Presidents. Read more. | | | | APIF and DAISY Consortium hold accessible publishing workshop in Nairobi The ongoing APIF-DAISY Consortium accessible publishing initiative will enter its next phase in December when it brings African publishers to Nairobi for face-to-face training. Read more. | | | | 2004-2008: A time for change for IPA In this third extract of his forthcoming book 'The Fifth Quarter Century - The International Publishers Association 1996-2021', IPA Past President Hugo Setzer looks back at the period 2004-2008. Read more. | | | | Tbilisi – 'Multifaceted and Chaotic' World Book Capital Gvantsa Jobava, Chair of the Literacy Subcommittee of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee starts a journey from one UNESCO World Book Capital City to another. She starts the series of blogs at home by speaking to Ninia Matcharashvili, the director of Tbilisi – World Book Capital project 2021. Read more. | | | | World Expression Forum announces very early bird rates The second edition of the World Expression Forum will take place in Lillehammer from 22-23 May 2023 with very early bird tickets now available and a renewed drive for shareholders. Read more. | | | The 33rd International Publishers Congress attracted good coverage with Publishing Perspectives, Publishers Weekly (here, here and here) and The Bookseller dedicating a number of articles to different parts of the event. The Prix Voltaire Ceremony was covered by the Jakarta Post, Prachatai and Gavroche Thailande. Zawya reported on the session dedicated to women in publishing and PublishNews Brazil covered the Inaugural IPA Innovation in Publishing Award.
IPA's reaction to the new bill in Russia was picked up in Publishing Perspectives and Actualitté.
IPA President, Bodour Al Qasimi, published her latest Medium Post (Arabic) starting to look back on her four years of Vice President and then President of the IPA.
IPA past President, Richard Charkin, continues his series of articles on Publishing Perspectives. | | January
16-18 January: Digital Book World (USA)
February
6 February: Deadline for IPA membership applications
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