International Publishers Association:
125 years of promoting and protecting publishing

Category: All Time

1935

World IP/FtP/ book-related developments In the UK, Allen, John and Richard Lane found Penguin Books with the intention of making cheap paperbacks available.

Nazi book burnings.

1933 | Brussels

IPA President Théophile Zech-Levie (BE)   World IP/FtP/ book-related developments Nazi book burnings.

1931: Louis Hachette (1870–1941), France

1931 | Paris

IPA President Louis Hachette (FR)   Other IPA notable occasions IPA office moves to Geneva (5, Avenue Marc-Monnier).

1927: Ove Tryde (1870–1956), Denmark

1927

IPA President Ove Tryde (DK)

1910: Wilhelmus Petrus van Stockum (1848–1927), Netherlands

1922

IPA President W.P. van Stockum (NL)   IPA Secretary General R. von Stürler   World IP/FtP/ book-related developments League of Nations creates the International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation (later UNESCO).

1921 | Paris

World IP/FtP/ book-related developments PEN International founded in London.

IPA Book – Technical Vocabulary of Publishing in 7 languages

1913 | Budapest

IPA President Georges Masson (FR)   Other IPA notable occasions IPA publishes: Technical Vocabulary of Publishing in Seven Languages.