The popular Madrid-based event proved to be yet another valuable opportunity to rally around the values and practices that sustain the international book business.
RISE Bookselling Conference: Notes from Verona
Last month, the European and International Booksellers Federation (EIBF) hosted the fourth annual international bookselling conference where 300 booksellers from around the world came together for workshops, panels, and presentations. Alex Mutter from Shelf Awareness writes about the importance of bookstores, particularly in the support of the trinity of freedoms.
IPA Announces New Chair of Freedom to Publish Committee
Jessica Sänger has been elected chair of the International Publishers Association Freedom to Publish Committee, succeeding Norwegian publisher Kristenn Einarsson.
Jessica Sänger on the EU AI Act: Rights Holders’ Concerns
Europe’s AI Act ‘left some important details to be worked out later,’ says the Börsenverein’s Jessica Sänger.
Germany: At the Börsenverein’s ‘Kongress’: Three Presidents Onstage
The ‘New Chapter’ conference of Börsenverein events in Berlin this month has included a ‘three presidents’ event onstage.
Simpson, Stevenson To Co-Chair IPA’s Copyright Committee
Following the tenure of Jessica Sänger, the IPA’s Copyright committee is to be led by co-chairs Lui Simpson and Catriona MacLeod Stevenson.
Italy’s Ricardo Levi Leads FEP; Sonia Draga Is First Woman Vice-President
‘Books and reading are absolutely indispensable to our European democracy,’ Ricardo Levi says on taking the federation’s presidency.
Georgia’s World Book Capital Program Stages Its Black Sea Conference
The inaugural Caucasus and Black Sea Basin conference was the centerpiece of the UNESCO World Book Capital closer in Tbilisi.
On Copyright: IPA’s Praise for Publishers Under ‘Unprecedented Pressure’
‘International copyright treaties and national laws allow publishers to invest in authorship,’ the world publishers’ association says.
IPA on Intellectual Property Day: ‘How Much Value Publishers Bring’
In its World Intellectual Property Day statement, the International Publishers Association warns against ‘a pretext of emergency access.’