In scholarly and academic publishing, Elsevier’s Michiel Kolman says, more female leadership is a new and promising development. Read More
Amsterdam’s Michiel Kolman on Diversity in STM
Delhi and Diversity
Amid strong programming on the freedom to publish and copyright concerns, the 32nd IPA congress in India mirrored world industry shortcomings in diversity challenges—and will go to Norway in 2020. Read More
International Publishers Association Issues Marrakesh Treaty Guide
With the Marrakesh Treaty ratified by the requisite number of nations, a guide to its background and provisions is available now from IPA. Read More
IPA, FEP, EIBF Demand that Turkey Release Prisoners of Conscience
With novelist Aslı Erdoğan and translator Necmiye Alpay still detained, the IPA, FEP, and EIBF call on Turkey to release them. Read More
The IPA, the Arab World, and ‘Building Dialogue’: Bodour on the Controversy
In a Publishing Perspectives exclusive, Bodour Al Qasimi reacts to the International Publishers Association’s recent membership controversy and looks at the Arab world’s industry in globalization. Read More
At #PF16: The UAE's Bodour: 'Ahead of the Curve'
The publisher Bodour Al Qasimi arrives at Berlin’s Publishers’ Forum as one of the most influential and committed players on the industry’s world stage. Porter Anderson at Publishing Perspectives. Read More
Jailed ‘Free Saudi Liberals’ Creator Raif Badawi Receives IPA Prix Voltaire
Emphasizing ‘the plight of oppressed publishers and writers,’ the International Publishers Association confers its newly renamed Prix Voltaire on Saudi dissident Raif Badawi. Read More
The IPA London Congress: Confrontation and Debate
Dichotomies of local and global, major and modest, resonated throughout the International Publishers Association’s 31st Congress, convened in the run-up to London Book Fair. Read More
‘Putting Readers First’ At BEA: Gatekeepers, Curators, And ‘Too Many Books’
‘Readers Are The Power Brokers Who Matter Most’ Readers decide. Readers come first, as they are the primary filters. Imprints, choices, and selections should really mean something. Brand can’t be faked in this area. Publish fewer books; publish better books. The concept has begun gaining traction as it dawns on many of us that “discoverability”… Read More
10 Bounces Of A Moving Target: Publishing Goes Mobile
Can You Hear Me Now? No, it’s not just you. Among our favorite confusing topics in digital publishing these days, mobile really gets around (sorry). And that’s because it’s thought by a great many people to be the coming thing. Maybe the already here thing. Maybe the you are so late thing. Forget plastics. Graduate to mobile.… Read More