Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)

Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)

Hosted ByChristopher Locke

"Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)" wants to make you a smarter publisher by giving you access to powerful ideas, strategies, and tools for success.

Our interview guests are independent publishers, author publishers, and hybrid publishers, as well as distributors, printers, reviewers, booksellers, marketers, visionaries, and opinion leaders from all sectors of the book publishing industry.

We are sponsored and supported by the Independent Book Publishers Association, the largest book publishing association in the U.S. serving independent publishers and author publishers. IBPA’s vision is a world where every independent publisher has the tools and knowledge needed to professionally engage in all aspects of the publishing industry.

Your host is IBPA Member Liaison Christopher Locke.

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Publishing in 2020, what lies ahead? with guest Angela Bole of IBPA

January 16, 2020 Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA) 00:26:18

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 new
  • AB5 (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 either
  • a continuing challenge: diversity in the publishing workspace and content
  • Barnes 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 distributor
  • achieving profitability by publishing more!

Links

IBPA Comments on proposed tariffs on printed books
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/456983/Updated-IBPA-Comments-on-Section-301-Investigation–Proposed-Tariff-on-Printed-Books.htm

IBPA’s own source of news and updates on the Audible lawsuit
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/467194/Updated-News-Related-to-Audible-Captions-Program.htm

Mike Shatzkin’s thoughts on changes in publishing as the decade begins
https://www.idealog.com/blog/2020-zero-year-thoughts-about-the-changes-in-book-publishing/

Participants

Angela Bole is chief executive officer of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), the largest book publishing association in the U.S. serving independent publishers and self-published authors.

Prior to joining IBPA, Angela served two years as deputy executive director of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), an organization that fosters conversation and consensus across all sectors of the book business. Before that, she served two years as BISG’s associate director and two years as its marketing and communications manager.

Angela holds a Masters of Science in Book Publishing from New York University and currently serves on the board of directors for the Book Industry Study Group. In 2017, she was awarded the Book Industry Study Group’s Industry Champion Award, given to an individual whose efforts have gone beyond the requirements of his or her position to advance the book industry.

Peter Goodman (host) is publisher of Stone Bridge Press in Berkeley, California. He began his publishing career in Tokyo, Japan, in 1976. A longtime member of IBPA, he has served on the IBPA board and as IBPA board chair.

For more information, go to IBPA at https://www.ibpa-online.org/.

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