Bodour Al Qasimi assures Ghanaian and African publishers of IPA’s continued commitment to boost resilience, build capacity and develop sustainable business models in the industry through knowledge sharing.
A crucial part of IPA's mission is to inform member associations and the wider global publishing community about breaking developments which will impact publishers. We do this through a number of channels. the IPA website, our monthly e-newsletter, press releases and the IPA's dedicated social media feeds.
On March 11, the IPA Copyright Committee met online for the first time ever. We would like to thank our members for attending the meeting, it was a pleasure to see almost 60 people from 38 countries joining us at this session.
IPA’s Malaysian member, the Malaysian Book Publishers Association (MABOPA), invited IPA President Bodour Al Qasimi and Secretary General José Borghino to speak at a recent event called the Kuala Lumpur World Publishers Dialogue, which took place on 18 March.
IPA was delighted to be invited by our new Associate Member, Afrilivres, to talk about our work on literacy, book policies and the forthcoming SDG Book Club Africa Chapter.
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We may indeed regard the Berne Convention as one of the great charters of literary liberty; it has directly and powerfully influenced all legislation touching copyright matters which has been achieved since it came into force. John Murray, IPA ...
James Taylor
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Pedro SOBRAL
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Gvantsa Jobava
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After two years of being the Executive committee member at the International Publishers Association, I was thrilled to accept the invitation of the chair of IPA’s Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee, Michiel Kolman, to lead the committee’s li...
Michiel Kolman
10 March 2021
As Chair of the IPA's Inclusive Publishing and Literacy Committee I was delighted to have the opportunity to speak to Peter Dowling, the Immediate Past President of the Publishers Association of New Zealand about their efforts to make their industry ...
Hugo Setzer
05 March 2021
Available in Portuguese, Turkish and Spanish.For the last four years, as Vice-President and then President of the International Publishers Association, I promoted accessible publishing around the world, talking with key stakeholders of the book indus...
Michiel Kolman
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Michiel Kolman
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