Dan became CEO of the Publishers Association in 2022, having previously been the membership organisation’s Director of External Affairs and leading the team responsible for policy, public affairs, communications, media relations, research and statistics. We asked Dan some questions about publishing, his career path and the #BookThatMadeMe.
The Publishers Association has today announced the launch of its bespoke Carbon Calculator. This is part of a suite of tools designed to support its members in acting on the Publishing Declares pledge.
The Publishers Association and its #SaveOurBooks partners (Association of Authors’ Agents, Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and Society of Authors) have written to the new DCMS and BEIS Secretaries of State urging them to continue the current copyright exhaustion regime, which underpins the UK’s £6.7 billion publishing sector.
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.
Accessing the International Schools Market is the sixth webinar in our series looking at some of publishing’s key export markets.
In June, the Publishers Association hosted a session on Sustainability and Law with Osborne Clarke.
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.
Nielsen join the Publishers Association to show members Industry Insights, a new interactive dashboard that presents data on a digital platform.
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.
Overview of the Indian Market is the fifth webinar in our series looking at some of the publishing’s key export markets.
Stephen Lotinga, Chief Executive of the Publishers Association, looks back on 2021 in his introduction to our Annual Report.
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.