The Publishers Association Insights Series is a programme of online events designed to support independent publishers.
As publishers, authors and book lovers gather in London this week for The London Book Fair (11-13 March) new research from the Publishers Association shows that UK books, journals and education resources are at the heart of the UK’s soft power, playing a key role in attracting tourism, students and contributing to the UK’s cultural…
The Publishers Association has announced that quantum physicist, academic, author, broadcaster and one of the UK’s best known science communicators, Professor Jim Al-Khalili, will deliver the Unwin Award Lecture 2025 at The Royal Institution on Tuesday 1 April 2025. Focusing on the value that publishing brings to society, Professor Jim Al-Khalili will talk about his…
Ahead of the deadline for the Government’s AI and copyright consultation, Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association, which represents over 150 UK publishers, said: “The extraordinary strength of support shown in recent weeks for copyright and our world-class creative industries is something the Government ignores at its peril. When Booker, Grammy, Oscar, and Nobel prize…
The London Book Fair (LBF) has today announced that Gloria Bailey, MBE, Associate Director for Export Services at the Publishers Association, is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for 2025. Throughout her career, Gloria has been instrumental in facilitating UK publishers’ international growth. She has coordinated export services and administered the Tradeshow Access Programme…
The Unwin Award has announced the six writers shortlisted for the inaugural year of this new, literary award recognising non-fiction writers in the earlier stages of their careers as authors, whose work is considered to have made a significant contribution to the world. Worth £10,000, the Unwin Award recognises authors for their overall body of…
Celia at LDN Apprenticeships explains how they can help publishers in the process of setting up an apprenticeship scheme, including recruitment and providing an outstanding classroom component. For the last five years, LDN Apprenticeships has been delivering the Level 4 Publishing Professional Apprenticeship, supporting over 100 apprentices in building successful careers within the publishing industry.…
We hear from three former apprentices from across different roles and sectors of the publishing industry on how an apprenticeship helped them progress in their careers, and the ways in which the experience they have gained has shaped how they work now. What role are you in now, and where and when did you complete…
Patriot by Alexei Navalny, Harold Wilson: Twentieth Century Man by Alan Johnson and Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips have won the best political books of the year at the Westminster Book Awards tonight, at the Houses of Parliament. The runners-up in this year’s awards – which are curated by bookshops and voted for by…
10th February 2025 Dear Chancellor, Comprehensive Spending Review – Opportunity to reduce spending on the DfE Arm’s Length Body Oak National Academy I am writing to you on behalf of the Publishers Association. We are the membership body for the UK’s £11 billion publishing sector, which spans academic, consumer and education publishing. In September 2022,…
We meet people in publishing who are keen to champion apprenticeships in their organisation; who have been on their own journey establishing a scheme and working with apprentices at their publishers.
On Thursday 16th January, we hosted a webinar taking an in-depth look at the South Korea market.
On Tuesday 14th January, we held a member-wide webinar, in partnership with BookMachine, exploring the future-ready marketing trends that publishers can harness to ignite enthusiasm and drive demand for their books. In this session, Laura Summers (Director and co-founder of BookMachine) dove into three of the hottest topics shaping digital marketing today: The Social Media…
Catriona MacLeod Stevenson (Publishers Association, UK) and Lui Simpson (AAP, USA) succeed Jessica Sänger (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Germany) as co-chairs of the International Publishers Association’s Copyright Committee. The IPA Copyright Committee is the association’s main body dealing with copyright policy issues, facilitating the exchange of information on local developments between IPA members as well…
The AI Opportunities Action Plan, led by Matt Clifford CBE, was published this morning [13 January].
The Westminster Book Awards presented by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association (formerly known as the Parliamentary Book Awards) has announced this year’s shortlists. Now in their ninth year, the awards recognise excellent political writing across three categories: Best Non-Fiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian, Best Biography by a Parliamentarian and Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian.
The High Court has granted an application brought by the Publishers Association requiring the UK’s main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to a collection of websites that provide unlawful access to books and journals.
The Audio Publishers Group (part of the UK Publishers Association) and the Audio Publishers Association have collaborated to create international guidelines on how to label AI narrated audiobooks. At present, various terms for different kinds of AI narration are being used interchangeably in the marketplace, which leads to confusion among publishers, retailers and consumers. The…