Inside Independent Publishing (with Ibpa)

CEO Angela Bole of IBPA summarizes some of the key issues facing book publishers and authors in the coming year—hint: there are challenges, but lots of opportunities (and lots of great books!)important issues, some old, some newAB5 (the gig economy law)windowing ebooks to libraries (the Macimillan controversy)the CASE Act, on the way to passage?tariffs: not here yet, but not off the table eithera continuing challenge: diversity in the publishing workspace and contentBarnes and Noble: a new owner, but will it make the company more responsive to its community and local publishers?the challenge of reaching independent booksellers without a distributorachieving profitability by publishing more!LinksIBPA Comments on proposed tariffs on printed bookshttps://www.ibpa-online.org/news/456983/Updated-IBPA-Comments-on-Section-301-Investigation--Proposed-Tariff-on-Printed-Books.htmIBPA’s own source of news and updates on the Audible lawsuithttps://www.ibpa-online.org/news/467194/Updated-News-Related-to-Audible-Captions-P