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Veteran publisher Richard Charkin used a July 2026 column to take aim at the book trade's habits of speech. Here is the argument, and a plain-English checklist for publishing writing.
Our recap of the international publishing news for the week of July 27, 2026: Bloomsbury's Anthropic settlement estimate, S&S's new imprint for indie authors, strikes on Ukrainian publishers and more.
By 2028, Georgian schools are set to use a single ministry-made textbook per subject instead of choosing among publishers' books. The IPA calls it a severe restriction on the freedom to publish.
Charlotte Wood, Anna Funder and Markus Zusak joined the publishers' and authors' associations before Parliament's AI committee. They asked for opt-in licensing, not a looser copyright law.
A Mexican agency fined the publisher over a person's name and image in Karla de la Cuesta's investigative book. The IPA has filed a brief in the appeal.
A new IPA report on 22 countries finds that censorship now works less through state bans and more through lawsuits, markets, platforms and self-censorship.
The International Publishers Association gave its first Freedom of Expression Defenders Award to the Media Coalition, the U.S. group that sues to block book-restriction laws.
As Frankfurter Buchmesse opens, the Börsenverein published the Frankfurt Appeal, backed by 120 publishers, asking EU and German lawmakers to force AI firms to disclose training data.
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