The chairman of China South, one of China’s largest media groups, discussed his commitment to preserving reading culture in China and around the world.
India: The Fault in our Laws
Anantha Padmanabhan, CEO at HarperCollins India, calls for more protection of freedom of expression and copyright in India.
Barbarians at the Gates of Australian Publishing
Louise Adler, president of the Australian Publishers Association, outlines her industry’s battle against potentially damaging copyright reforms.
Canadian Copyright Modernization Act: Chronicle of a Disaster Foretold
A call for Canada’s government to conduct a fact-based review of its disastrous Copyright Moderization Act. Editorial by Nicole Saint-Jean, President, Association nationale des éditeurs de livres (ANEL)
Engaging the Threats Against Freedom to Publish
IPA president Richard Charkin writes about why publishers in countries with ‘inglorious track records on freedom to publish’ deserve the IPA’s support
Michael Healy: What Happens When Publishers Ignore Copyright Issues
Can changes to copyright in places like Germany or Canada threaten your business? In order to protect their revenue, publishers need to know about copyright battles being fought around the world.
Gail Rebuck: ‘The Power of the Book’ in the Digital Age
‘The power of the book and the importance of the author haven’t changed at all,’ the Baroness Gail Rebuck tells London Book Fair’s Quantum Conference. And she warns against a ‘civil war’ in publishing.
Will Ebooks Ever Circulate Freely in Europe?
Joaquín Rodríguez shares his views on ebook accessibility, standards and interoperability within the frame of the European single digital market.
Context in Publishing: Perspectives on the ‘Wall of Content’
Has book production outpaced readership and what can publishers do about it? Porter Anderson’s opening editorial for Publishing Perspectives explores this.
3 Reasons UK Publishers Are Not Buying into Diversity
Trying to instill diversity into the UK publishing industry is like “working on a car while it is still running,“ says Bobby Nayyar. The answer, he asserts, can only be entrepreneurship.