Guidance for publishing companies seeking to collect data about the protected characteristics of authors, illustrators and translators has been released today by the Publishers Association. The toolkit, prepared by independent researchers following consultation with publishers, aims to help publishers navigate this area. It includes guidance on creating and sending out an author questionnaire, along with…
Today the Publishers Association releases their complete 2020 Yearbook which includes detailed information about how publishers fared during the Covid-19 pandemic.
New research has found that up to 64% of publisher book revenue is estimated to be at risk if the government changes the current copyright laws.
To mark the Publishers Association's 125th anniversary, parliamentarians have provided recommendations for a Summer Reading List.
Stacy currently leads the RNIB Bookshare UK Education Collection service which provides accessible, digital educational materials to learners with print disabilities; working directly with over 1,100 publishers and imprints; providing over 705,000 titles and growing. In Stacy’s professional and voluntary roles, she undertakes substantial work advocating for access to inclusion and equality in education for…
The trailblazers of the Publishing Assistant Apprenticeship have completed their training with 60% achieving distinctions.
#LoveAudio returns for a fifth year and will run from Monday 12 to Friday 16 July 2021. The annual celebration will highlight the accessibility, creativity and innovation of audiobooks.
To mark the 125th anniversary of the Publishers Association, we take a look at the key moments in our history.
An alliance of organisations has launched the Save Our Books campaign in the face of a potentially devastating change to the UK’s copyright laws which could result in fewer books, by fewer authors, for fewer readers. Save Our Books is a joint campaign from the Publishers Association, the Society of Authors, the Association of Authors’…
A new report calls into question the Department for Education’s recently announced policy to hastily procure a single set of cheap and untested curriculum resources.
David Shelley, CEO of Hachette UK, has been elected to the position of President of the Publishers Association.
Our Publishing in 2020 report shows the invoiced value of UK publisher sales rose 2% to £6.4 billion.
Iain Dale, Chris Bryant MP and Dan Jarvis MP have been announced as the winners of the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards.
The economic impact of the potential new Open Access (OA) policy from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is detailed in a new report published today.
The latest findings of the Publishers Association’s UK publishing workforce survey show that while publishing continues to meet its target to employ at least 50% women in senior roles within five years, there has been little progress in its other target of increasing the ethnic diversity of employees.
The shortlist for the 2020 Parliamentary Book Awards, the only political book awards voted for by parliamentarians, has been unveiled today, including titles by David Lammy, broadcaster Iain Dale, former Sheffield Mayor Magid Magid, broadcaster and journalist Helen Lewis, and The Secret Barrister.
New figures for the UK’s publishing industry reveal that in the first six months of 2020, fiction sales income rose 13% to £285m, driven largely by digital formats – but also helped by hardback increases.
The Publishers Association’s Work in Publishing campaign returns from Monday 16 to Friday 20 November. Work in Publishing Week aims to encourage young people between the ages of 14 and 24 to pursue a career in publishing.