After more than two years, the return of H.B. 900, which would require bookstores and vendors to review all books in Texas schools at their own expense and rate them for sexual content, is a tense, and unwelcome development for freedom-to-read advocates.
BISG Annual Meeting: Move Fast and Fix Things
The BISG Annual Meeting, themed “Move Fast and Fix Things,” highlighted the many ways the organization is making steps to improve things in the global publishing industry.
UK Author Unions Launch Investigation Into ‘Partner Publishing’
Citing ‘a sharp rise in complaints’ about companies that charge writers to produce their work, author-advocacy unions open a study.
US Book Industry: Associations Form Health Insurance Coalition
With research from the Independent Book Publishers Association, members of 11 US-based organizations now are part of a health care insurance program.
Copyright: US Publishers Succeed in ‘Audible Captions’ Case
The success of the AAP in its case against Audible’s audiobook ‘Captions’ may have long-lasting influence on issues of AI and intellectual property.
IBPA Announces James Daunt as Keynote Speaker at April Conference
Even as Seattle loses another Barnes & Noble store, the Independent Book Publishers Association prepares for a conference appearance by James Daunt.
IBPA Backs US Publishers Association in Objections to ‘Audible Captions’
The IBPA has filed a complaint with Audible on behalf of 27 independent publishers that object to Audible Captions functionality.
IBPA Board Votes Against a Collective Exhibit at BookExpo 2019: ‘The Best Decision for Now’
Evaluating the ‘reimagined’ BookExpo 2018, the IBPA board–for 34 years a BookExpo exhibitor–votes to forgo a cooperative booth in 2019, as in 2018: ‘There is little reason for a publisher not part of the traditional eco-system to exhibit on the trade show floor.’
BIC Slams Wrongful Use of Metadata Fields for Book Promotion
Condemned as ‘hugely confusing for the book-buyer’ and the publishing supply chain, the practice of using of subtitle and/or title fields for promotion prompted the UK’s BIC to issue a cease-and-desist message to publishers.
Nine Criteria for Hybrid Publishing from the Independent Book Publishers Association
The IBPA has released a 9-point outline for hybrid publishers with author-subsidized business models to operate reputably and maintain quality standards.
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