Today the APPG on Publishing is announcing a call for evidence into how to maintain a world-leading publishing sector. The publishing industry generates up to £7.8bn gross value added (GVA) for the wider economy and supports more than 70,000 jobs directly and indirectly. It is also far greater than the sum of its parts. The…
The Publishers Association is today launching a new online toolkit for members to help them prepare for the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will introduce widespread changes to data protection laws in Europe. The resources, which have been developed for the PA by law firm Harbottle & Lewis together with technology consultancy Stigmergist,…
Delegates at The London Book Fair will this year hear from Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for the Digital Single Market, on the copyright reform package, which aims to update the EU’s copyright laws for the digital age. Ansip was appointed Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the…
The Read On. Get On. (ROGO) coalition has today launched the ROGO Index – a new robust measure of children’s reading at age 11 in England [1]. The ROGO coalition has created a more holistic view of how well the nation’s children are reading by bringing together government, commercial and third sector data to indicate…
Nick Clegg, Harriet Harman and Brendan Cox have been announced as the winners of the second Parliamentary Book Awards, as voted for by MPs and members of the House of Lords. Nick Clegg won Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian for How to Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again), The Sunday Times Bestseller, in which…
New independent research has shown that the British publishing industry generates up to £7.8bn GVA for the wider UK economy and supports more than 70,000 jobs in direct, indirect and induced impact. The Contribution of the Publishing Industry to the UK Economy – produced by Frontier Economics for the Publishers Association and to be launched…
Good morning, and thank you for inviting me to speak at this important and timely conference. The UK publishing industry is unequivocally world-beating. Of the 9 books to have ever sold more than 100 million copies, 6 are by British authors. To top it off, the Nobel Prize for Literature this year was won by…
Harriet Harman, Nick Clegg and former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, are among the influential politicians who are on the shortlist for the inaugural Parliamentary Book Awards; the only political book awards voted for by parliamentarians. Launched by the Booksellers Association of UK and Ireland and the Publishers Association in 2016, the awards aim to…
The London Book Fair and the Publishers Association are delighted to announce that the Rt Hon Matt Hancock, Minister of State for Creative Industries and MP for West Suffolk, will be the keynote speaker at the Building Inclusivity in Publishing conference 2017. Since his appointment to the Cabinet Office in July 2016, Matt Hancock…
The chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, which aims to place research and evidence ‘at the heart of learning for teachers’, Professor Dame Alison Peacock is to give the opening keynote at the PA/BESA Educational Publishing Conference. She will speak alongside primary and secondary school teachers and headteachers and education research experts. The…
By Books in the Nick, Give a Book. Friday 6 October 2017. Books in the Nick was started by Give a Book in collaboration with Special Constable Steve Whitmore of the Metropolitan Police. Books in the Nick supplies custody suites with books for detainees to read and keep. In 2016, the project supplied books to…
The Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association are delighted to announce that the Parliamentary Book Awards – the only book award curated by bookshops and voted on by parliamentarians – is returning this year, with submissions opening to all UK publishers from today. The awards will be presented at a ceremony at the House…
By Faber & Faber. Thursday 21 September 2017. Faber & Faber today pledged a commitment to inclusivity across the organisation by announcing a raft of initiatives. Inclusivity is a vital agenda in Faber’s plans for the future. These measures have been designed by a team from across the company, and will begin to address in…
By Egmont Publishing Wednesday 20 September 2017. Exactly a year ago, staff started doing volunteer reading at our closest primary school, Avondale Park. For our editors, whose role it is to create books for this age group, it was a wonderful opportunity to spend a quiet hour sitting and reading with the children we want to…
The Publishers Association has today announced a new 10 point industry-wide action plan to tackle inclusivity within the industry’s workforce to ensure publishers better reflect the UK population. This plan includes a new commitment to undertake an industry wide survey of the workforce of UK publishing houses, which will be published on an annual basis.…
BBC’s Razia Iqbal announced as chair 13 November 2017, Coin Street Conference Centre London, 13 September 2017: The London Book Fair and the Publishers Association have announced that the Building Inclusivity in Publishing conference will return for a second year on 13 November 2017, following the great success of the inaugural conference in 2016.…
By Paddy Johnston, Group Communications Manager, Hachette Wednesday 13 September 2017. The Avid Readers Book Club is a reading scheme for primary schools. It was set up by a sub-group of our Changing the Story Diversity and Inclusion group, as part of our broader Changing the Story programme to promote diversity and inclusion at Hachette…
The Publishers Association held a seminar on the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its implications for publishers sponsored by the Publishing Licensing Society on Friday 8 September 2017. The presentation from this seminar is available to PA members only from the link below. To view the link members need to login to the PA…