On Tuesday 14 July at 1pm CEST, Shweta Khurana, Editor of All About Book Publishing, talks to IPA President, Hugo Setzer and the President of the Federation of Indian Publishers, Ramesh K Mittal about how the Coronavirus pandemic has affected publishers in India and around the world.
On Monday 13 July, at 1pm CEST, watch IPA Secretary General, José Borghino, talk to Bachar Chebaro, Secretary General of the Arab Publishers Association about how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected publishers across the region and what the future might hold.
The latest of our IPA in Conversation with … sees Li Pengyi, Vice President of the Publishers Association of China (PAC), tell us about how the COVID-19 Pandemic has affected publishing in China and how Chinese publishers have reacted quickly to keep people reading and learning.
The international Publishers Association has contributed 1,000CHF to kickstart an international appeal for support as the lockdown in Bangladesh puts the legacy Faisal Arefin Dipan at risk. His widow, Razia Rahman Joly, carried on his publishing house and opened a bookshop, Dipanpur, in his memory. 3 months of lockdown and no income mean eviction and closure are now looming.
As a bonus to our series of posts for Global Goals week, we thought we would concentrate on a specific goal, namely SDG 5: Gender Equality.
Francyne Harrigan, the Director of the UN's Information Centre in Jakarta talks to us about how she brought the UN SDG Book Club initiative to Indonesia with a local twist.
Rachel Martin interviews Sherri Aldis, Chief, United Nations Publications.
As part of Global Goals Week, associations from the Brazilian and Portuguese book sectors came together to announce a new SDG Book Club that will launch in 2021.
An Interview with Ellen Sporstøl and Kristin Orjasater on how Norway is inspiring the next generation of readers to become more sustainable.
