Publishers are invited to nominate books for this year’s Parliamentary Book Awards. The Parliamentary Book Awards are the only book awards curated by bookshops and voted on by parliamentarians. Launched by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association in 2016, the awards aim to celebrate the best of political writing and the long-standing link between politics, books, and publishing.
As the Conservative Party leadership race draws to a close, Dan Conway, CEO of the Publishers Association, has written to the Conservative leadership candidates and urged them to commit to five pledges to secure the ongoing economic, cultural, and social contribution of the UK’s world-leading publishing industry.
The Publishers Association has been supporting the 'Books without Borders' initiative to help produce 16,000 copies of Ukrainian language children's books to be distributed to Ukrainian refugee children of different ages in the UK. The aim of the initiative is to minimise the disruption to education, unite, and bring back the feeling of home.
The Publishers Association has joined other trade bodies and collective management organisations focused on publishing to raise concerns to the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) about the government’s decision to introduce a new copyright exception that allows any entity anywhere to mine copyrighted text and data for free, for any commercial use.
As MPs embark on Summer Recess, the Publishers Association today releases its Summer Reading List for Parliamentarians 2022
T his year's list is linked to the #BookThatMadeMe campaign, which celebrates books that have had a positive personal impact.
The Publishers Association has joined other organisations to call on the Department for Education to reconsider its radical plans for an arms-length future curriculum body due to a lack of evidence and of due scrutiny, exacerbated by current political uncertainty.
MPs, peers, publishers and leading figures in the UK’s books industry celebrated the power of books at the Publishers Association’s Summer Reception in Parliament yesterday.
MPs, peers, publishers and leading figures in the UK’s books industry celebrated the power of books at the Publishers Association’s Summer Reception in Parliament yesterday.
The Publishers Association has appointed Louis Coiffait-Gunn as Director of Policy and Public Affairs and promoted Ruth Howells to the role of Director of Communications.
This speech was delivered by Nigel Newton at the Publishers Association’s Annual General Meeting which was held on Tuesday 26 April.
Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury Publishing, has used his inaugural speech as President of the Publishers Association to call for greater regulation of tech platforms.
Stephen Lotinga, CEO of the Publishers Association, will be leaving the membership organisation later this year, with Dan Conway, current Director of External Affairs, to be appointed his successor.
UK publisher sales rose 5% to £6.7 billion in 2021, a new high for the industry.
The Publishers Association’s industry survey shows there has been an increase in the diversity of the workforce but there are still areas which need to be improved.
Mark Carney, Andrew Mitchell MP, Penny Mordaunt MP, and Chris Lewis have been announced as the winners of the 2021 Parliamentary Book Awards.
A new video aiming to showcase the value of the publishing industry has been launched today by the Publishers Association.
The shortlist for the 2021 Parliamentary Book Awards, the only political book awards voted for by parliamentarians, has been announced today.
Today (Tuesday 18 January, 2022) the government has announced that it will maintain the UK’s current laws on exhaustion of intellectual property rights.