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On 26 September WIPO’s Accessible Books Consortium welcomed Hachette Livre as the 100th Signatory to the ABC Charter for Accessible Publishing marking an important milestone...

IPA is holding a full schedule of Committee meetings as well as open and public events around the 33rd International Publishers Congress in Lillehammer, freedom...

At the beginning of September, IPA Secretary General, José Borghino spoke at a Symposium on Education Publishing in Jakarta during the Indonesia International Book Fair.

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When the names and titles of the Commissioners forming the team of President-elect Ursula von der Leyen were finally announced, most of the observers including...

WIPO’s Advisory Committee on Enforcement (ACE) met on September 2-4, 2019. On the agenda were several important updates about enforcement strategies adopted by WIPO Member...

Brazil’s State Secretariat for Culture held a public consultation to assess the need to review the Brazilian Copyright Act 1998. The consultation, which closed on...

On 17 September 2019 the fifth list of books for the UN SDG Book Club were announced. The list of titles in all six official...

The French Publishers Association (SNE) initiative “La rentrée littéraire pour tous » successfully saw 82 publishers make 425 titles available in accessible format upon their release...

Following legislative change in the European Union (EU) on 2 October 2018, EU Member States continue to reduce VAT rates for eBooks and audiobooks, often...

Held under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah, this was the first IPA Regional Seminar covered publishing in the Middle East and...