London, 3 July 2014 – The Creative Industries Council (CIC), has launched its strategy to deliver growth across the sector. The report, Create UK, makes a series of recommendations that, if implemented, will result in growth in the creative industries. To read the report click here These recommendations cover five priority areas…
London, 4 June 2014 – Susie Winter has joined the Publishers Association (PA) as Director of Policy and Communications. Working across the academic, trade and education publishing divisions, Winter will be responsible for developing and leading the PA’s work across the policy agenda as well as promoting the UK publishing industry at both a UK…
London, 23 May 2014 – The PA has announced the appointment of new Officers with Dominic Knight, Chairman of Palgrave Macmillan appointed as President, and Joanna Prior, Managing Director, Penguin, as Vice President and Treasurer. Knight previously served as Vice President under the new Past President Nick Fowler, Managing Director of Elsevier, while Prior previously sat…
London, 2 May 2014 – The Publishers Association Statistics Yearbook 2013 (PASY) published today highlights how the revenues from books and academic journals in the UK stand at £4.7 billion, with £1.5 billion (29%) of these being derived from digital services. In the UK’s £3.4 billion books market, digital and physical shares are at a…
16 January 2014 Press Release The EU-funded network TISP (Technologies and Innovation for Smart Publishing) aims to connect the publishing and technology sectors, and it encourages its members to apply for EU funding London, 16 January 2014– Richard Mollet, CEO, The Publishers Association, said:“The interactions between European publishing and technology companies are of increasing importance,…
London, 15 January 2014 –The Department for Culture, Media and Sport Commenting has today published the latest Economic Estimates for the creative industries. The Publishing industry, is defined as book, magazine and newspaper publishing among others, performed very well in the Economic Estimates, and the related key findings are: 255,000 individuals are employed in the…
Richard Charkin, 30th January Richard Charkin, the new President of the International Publishers Association (and former President of The Publishers Association) sets out his priorities for the organisation. The International Publishers Association (IPA) is a federation of more than 60 national, regional and specialist publishers’ associations. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, IPA represents the interests of…
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Richard Mollet, 07 January 2015 As well as being the Australian way of describing a likely England cricket score, here is a brief run-down of what we at The PA think will be the five most important things for us in the coming year. 1) The General Election It is pretty hard to see past…
08 August 2014 Commenting on the appointment of Dame Gail Rebuck to the House of Lords, Richard Mollet, the Chief Executive of The PA said: “This peerage is a richly deserved honour. Dame Gail Rebuck’s work in promoting adult literacy with the founding of Quick Reads, her support for booksellers as a driving force behind…
The reforms to the copyright exception which came into force last year to facilitate the supply of accessible copies of copyright works, and the upcoming ratification of the Marrakesh Treaty, means this is a time of considerable change for print disabled people and publishers. The PA, under the auspices of its Accessibility Action Group, is…
19th March 2015 The Publishers Association is launching a new website which will streamline and consolidate the wealth of content from its previous site. It will allow for greater interaction between The PA, its members and others in the publishing community, and provide information on its wide-range of campaigns and initiatives in a more accessible…
24th March 2015 The Publishers Association is today writing to all UK MEPs to raise concerns about the damage that would be inflicted on the UK’s publishing sector and wider creative economy by the European Commission’s plans to reform copyright as part of the Digital Single Market programme. The PA is telling MEPs that by…
Richard Mollet, 26th March 2015 A perfect storm is brewing in Brussels. On 6th May the European Commission will publish its long awaited White Paper on the Digital Single Market. This, we must hope, will provide much needed insight into the Commission’s thinking on the scale and scope of copyright reform which it believes is…
26th March 2015 Commenting on the publication today of the Review of the Implementation of the RCUK Open Access Policy, Richard Mollet, Chief Executive of The Publishers Association and member of the Review Panel, said: “The report into the implementation of RCUK’s Open Access policy stresses the need for greater clarity in communication to institutions…
Richard Mollet, 24th April 2015 We are less than two weeks away from the general election and with the polls stubbornly refusing to betray a preference for either of the two main parties, those on the fringe are able to maintain the prospect of their presence at any impending coalition negotiations. In one way, and…
Colin Hughes, 28th April 2015 ‘And what do you do for a living?’ ‘Well, I publish textbooks.’ ‘Really? That must be a struggle now you can get it all free online? … And anyway, books – surely they’ll be replaced with tablets/MOOCs/videos/games won’t they?’ That is a standard conversational exchange for most of us in…