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ISBN Agency AGM at Sao Paulo
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IPA Secretary General at the International ISBN Agency’s 2025 Annual General Meeting

On 16 and 17 September, IPA Secretary General José Borghino participated in the International ISBN Agency’s 2025 AGM in São Paulo, Brazil. Representatives of agencies...
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  • Opinion

IPA at LBF24: Day 3

The third and final day of the London Book Fair was focused around the freedom to publish culminating with the session, "A Trinity of Freedoms...
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IPA represented at the ISBN Annual General Meeting in Rabat, Morroco

The ISBN system is fundamental to everything publishers do, but it is a piece of metadata that is often forgotten or ignored. IPA Secretary General,...
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“It was an idea whose time had come.” David Whitaker on the birth of ISBN

David Whitaker tells IPA President Richard Charkin about the path to a global identifier for books....
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What is the future for ISBN?

Can International Standard Book Numbers (ISBN) remain relevant in an age of Amazon, ebooks and self publishing? Stella Griffiths of the International ISBN Agency told us...
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