Some encouragement for educational publishers in the EPC Learning Resources Review 2011

16 February 2012
Posted in Educational News

This year’s annual review of schools expenditure on learning resources, commissioned by the PA’s Education Publishers Council, provides some encouragement for educational publishers.

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The Publishers Association Wins ACE Library Bid

15 February 2012
Posted in PA press releases and comments

The Publishers Association (PA), in association with The Reading Agency, has today seen its proposal for a project to encourage digital skills within libraries win the backing of the Arts Council England’s new Libraries Development Initiative Fund. The Digital Skills Sharing initiative, put forward by the PA and The Reading Agency, will bring publishers and library authorities together to exchange ideas and expertise on new digital marketing programmes.

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The Publishers Association Supports Digital Copyright Exchange as Alternative to Law Change

10 February 2012
Posted in PA press releases and comments

The Publishers Association (PA) has today called for the development of a new online platform that would act as a “one stop shop” for the exchange of information about how to license copyright works online.  Such a Digital Copyright Exchange (DCE) would counteract the need for dangerous changes to copyright law proposed by government in a parallel consultation, the PA argues.

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PLR: how publishers can help as PLR reaches its 50,000th milestone

03 February 2012
Posted in General News

Public Lending Right, the body that makes payments to authors for loans of their books from public libraries, celebrated a great milestone recently with the registration of its 50,000th author.

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Children's writers ride high in PLR's most borrowed authors list

03 February 2012
Posted in General News

Five children’s writers are among the Top 10 Most Borrowed Authors in UK libraries, according to the latest annual data released today by Public Lending Right (PLR) on the eve of National Libraries Day.

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List of independent language publishers in India

02 February 2012
Posted in Global Publishing News

With the New Delhi Book Fair fast approaching, members who are planning to attend this year's fair may be interested to know that the PA has added a list of 14 independent language publishers as an addendum to its India Publishing Market Profile 2008.

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Did you apply for a full-time higher education place in 2005/6 (or do you know someone who did)?

31 January 2012
Posted in General News

If you did, you are a member of the Futuretrack cohort and we want to hear from you. Futuretrack is an independent study conducted by the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at the University of Warwick, and funded by the Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU). Over the last five years we have been following the experiences of the 2005/6 Futuretrackers as they have progressed through higher education and into the labour market.

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Aid Projects Alert January 2012

24 January 2012
Posted in AID Project Alerts

In this month's issue there are seven new projects and seven approvals approvals.

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World Book Night needs you!

23 January 2012
Posted in General News

Apply to become a giver for World Book Night taking place on 23rd April 2012!

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Are Publishers Born or Made?

18 January 2012
Posted in General News

The PA, with the Association of Publishing Education, supported a Symposium held on Tuesday 17th January entitled, 'Are Publishers Born or Made?', examining the role of Publishing courses at University.

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