BOOK DESIGN DISCUSSION PANEL in the SWF
Friday 18 May 2012

10 – 11 am, Wharf Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company

This is our 6th ‘Morning After’ Event following the Book Design Awards the previous evening. Entry is FREE. Please Tweet and re-Tweet about this and join the throng attending. Stephen Banham is coming up from Melbourne and joining Zoe Sadokeirski, Mel Feddersen and Hugh Ford.
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60th ANNUAL BOOK DESIGN AWARDS
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The Book Design Awards is the premier event recognising creativity, excellence and innovation in contemporary Australian book design.

The awards ceremony at the Powerhouse Museum on the 17th May is being held as part of Sydney Writers’ Festival program. If you have not already viewed the shortlist, you can download it here (pdf).

Book Industry Digital Innovation Award – Nominations open!

The Australian Publishers Association is proud to present the new Book Industry Digital Innovation Award sponsored by Publishing Technology, as part of the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards. More information and nomination form here.

Book Industry Digital Innovation Award – Tickets on sale now!

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be presented at a gala dinner at the Ivy Room in Sydney on Friday May 18 as part of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. Known as the ‘Academy Awards’ for books, the 2012 ABIAs will celebrate the very best of Australian writing, publishing and bookselling. Tickets to attend the gala dinner can be purchased by visiting www.trybooking.com.

Australian Book Industry Awards 2012 - Shortlist Announced

The shortlist has been announced for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) which will be presented at a gala dinner at the Ivy Room in Sydney on Friday May 18 as part of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival. Known as the ‘Academy Awards’ for books, the 2012 ABIAs will celebrate the very best of Australian writing, publishing and bookselling. View the shortlist here

IPA Demands Freedom for Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Ragıp Zarakolu

2012 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee publisher Ragıp Zarakolu has been held on pre-trial detention for 135 days in a high-security prison, being accused of membership of an illegal organisation under Turkish anti-terror legislation. His detention and that of many others symbolize the current fall of Turkey in international freedom of expression rankings. The International Publishers Association (IPA) continues to be seriously concerned that his imprisonment, alongside several other writers and intellectuals, is in glaring violation of Turkey’s international human rights obligations.

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International Digital Chat Series: Transforming the Landscape

2011/12 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellow

JANE MORROW, 2012 winner of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship LEAVES FOR NEW YORK!
You can follow her 10 weeks in the USA on her blog here www.whatwouldbeatricedo.wordpress.com

Australian Publishers Association Statement on WikiLeaks

As part of the charter of the APA, we uphold a publishers right of freedom to publish and freedom of expression. Julian Assange is an Australian citizen and WikiLeaks is a publisher.

"The members of the Australian Publishers Association value the freedom to publish and the right of a publisher to release information that is perceived to be in the public interest without fear of retribution.

We deplore the calls for violence against the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, an Australian citizen exercising his right to publish freely.

We urge the government of the United States of America to respect the due process of law which underpins the fundamental freedom to write and publish – and allow WikiLeaks and its founder to do so, without the private or public threat of intimidation, or harassment of their commercial partners, to prevent publication.

We call on the governments of Australia and the United States of America to recognise and uphold the right of WikiLeaks as a publisher, to freedom of expression."

Equal Access Resolution

On World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April, the International Publishers Association's Copyright Committee focused its attention on readers who are unable to access material in the same way as sighted readers. A statement confirming that "it is a shared ambition of publishers around the world to make their works accessible to all readers" was released. A copy of the full statement is available here.

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