London 29 July 2014 Pan Macmillan has hosted the first ‘Reading for Pleasure’ campaign roadshow in association with the Publishers Association at its offices in London’s Kings Cross, offering anyone from across the business a paid day per year to make time for working with and supporting literacy charities. The Publishers Association’s ‘Reading for Pleasure’…
London, 21 July 2014 – The Publishers Association has hailed the release of the BFI’s Statistics Yearbook 2014 as an authoritative and interesting report on the film industry and its positive impact on the UK’s creative economy. The role that the publishing industry has played in driving creative and economic success is of particular note.…
London, 21 July 2014– The Publishers Association Digital Sales Monitor April 2014 released today reveals that digital sales have continued to increase across the industry. Digital sales increased from £119.9m from January-April 2013 to £132.5m in the same period this year, a rise of 10.5%. This continues the increasingly strong performance of the digital formats…
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…