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Book Design Awards 2009 - Call for entries

The call for entries for the 57th Book Design Awards is open! For information on how to enter, please click here. The deadline for your beautiful books to be sent to the APA is Friday 23rd January 2009.

And don't forget the event itself - it's on Thursday 21st May 2009 at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. So put it in your diaries now!

Digital Publishing Presentation

"The Digital Future: A New Mythology" SPECIAL PRESENTATION by Genevieve Shore, Global Digital Director, Penguin UK: Monday 2 March 2009. $20 per person inc GST (Penguin, CAL and digital publishing workshop attendees complimentary, but please fill out registration form so numbers are known for seating arrangements). Registrations close Friday 20 February 2009.

Special registration form for the Genevieve Shore presentation: click here

The event will be open to all member publishers and will take place at the offices of CAL, Level 15, 233 Castlereagh St Sydney. Reception 5.45 - 6.30. No entry after 6.20. Presentation & Questions 6.30 - 7.30. Doors close 7.45pm.

For more information please see the Training Latest News page.

Residential Editorial Program

The Report of the Residential Editorial Program held in May 2008, is now available. You can download the summary or the full report by visiting the REP page here.

It was, like the previous four programs, an enormous success. Participants, mentors and speakers were again overwhelmingly positive, judging it a unique training opportunity.

Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report now available

The Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Australian Publishers Association are pleased to announce that the full report of the 2007 winner, Colette Vella is now available. It outlines the amazing experience Colette had in New York between March and May 2008, investigating the relationship between editors, authors and literary agents - mostly in the area of literary fiction.

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Productivity Commission to Review Copyright Laws

For more information please see the News section.

Resolutions of the 28th IPA Publishers Congress

The 28th IPA Publishers Congress took place in Seoul, Korea on 12-15 May 2008. It attracted some 600 publishers and guests from 45 countries. The Congress ended on 15 May with the presentation of the Resolutions, the formal concluding document of the event. The Resolutions focus on the key issues for publishers in the future: Freedom to publish, copyright, national book policy promotion, free enterprise in publishing. A new emphasis was put on translation issues.

The IPA Congress Resolutions are here.

Equal Access Resolution

On World Book and Copyright Day, 23 April, the International Publishers Association's Copyright Committee focused its attention on readers who are unable to access material in the same way as sighted readers. A statement confirming that "it is a shared ambition of publishers around the world to make their works accessible to all readers" was released. A copy of the full statement is available here.

Publishing Internship Program 2008

The APA Publishing Internship Program 2008, which is supported by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund, gives publishers the opportunity to place a paid intern within their organisation for a six month period. Internships will be offered at the following publishing companies: Text Publishing, Melbourne - Editorial Intern; Cambridge University Press, Melbourne - Development Editor Intern; Allen & Unwin, Sydney - Editorial Intern; UWA Press, Perth - Editorial Intern; Aboriginal Studies Press (AIATSIS), Canberra - Publishing Intern.

Detailed information about all internship positions, including application deadline dates, will be placed on this website as they become available. Please see the section below. The internship positions will also be advertised nationally. Prior to that, potential applicants for these positions should email Libby O'Donnell at the APA for more information: elizabeth.odonnell@publishers.asn.au

If you are interested in applying for an internship position, please click here for general information about the program. You can also see more information about the internships that have already been advertised so far by going here.

If you would like to join our internship mailing list to receive up-to-date information about the APA Internship Program as it becomes available, please emai elizabeth.odonnell@publishers.asn.au with the subject header: "Please add me to the APA Publishing Internship mailing list".

Applications are now closed for the Internship Program for 2008

Applications for the following internship positions are now closed:

Editorial Intern - Text Publishing, Melbourne
Development Editor Intern - CUP, Melbourne
Aboriginal Studies Press - Canberra
Editorial Intern - UWA Press
Editorial Intern - Allen & Unwin, Sydney

For a detailed description of these positions, please click on the publisher's name above.

Revised imprint page notices

Revised imprint page notices for use on schools material are now available to members . These notices have been prepared by the APA Schools Educational Publishing Committee in conjunction with the Copyright Agency Limited and are provided as a free service to APA members. Members are under no obligation to use the suggested notices but are welcome to use them as they see fit.

Similar notices were made available to members a few years ago. Changes have been made to the notices and these reflect changes in copyright law since that time.

There is one new suggested notice which is for an educational book, where the whole book has a publisher's licence to copy for an individual teacher. It relates to those books other than BLM books where the publisher permits an individual teacher to (only) photocopy the complete book.

For APA Members, more news and reports are available in the Members Only section. If you have problems logging in please contact Kellie Cameron at the APA.

Last updated Tuesday 6 December 2008