Publishers Association

http://www.publishers.org.uk/

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The Publishers Association is the leading trade organisation representing book, journal, audio and e

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United Kingdom, England, London

Employees

11-50

Phone

+44 20 7378 0504

Founded date

1896

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Jul 7, 2025	Chad Nicholas Is Redefining Scary for Gen Z With Smart, Soul-Crushing Fiction: Horror That Haunts Across Platforms	With his sensational hit "Animal," Nicholas is more than just another horror author; he is the epitome of the next nightmare. LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, July 7, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The internet has a new literary obses...
Apr 7, 2025	OpenAI and Google Reject UK Government’s AI Copyright Proposal	Image: pichetw/Envato Elements Google and OpenAI have rejected the U.K. government’s proposal aimed at balancing the use of online content for AI training with protecting artists’ rights to consent and compensation. The companies suggest th...
Jan 15, 2025	The UK’s AI Action Plan: A Leap into the Future or a Step into the Unknown?	The United Kingdom is at a crossroads. The government has unveiled its ambitious “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” a roadmap to transform the nation into a global leader in artificial intelligence. This plan is not just a collection of ideas;...
Jan 14, 2025	UK’s New AI Action Plan Aims to Position Country as a Global Powerhouse	The U.K. government has released its “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” outlining the 50 ways it will build out the AI sector and turn the country into a “world leader.” The strategy involves boosting public computing capacity twentyfold, crea...
Dec 18, 2024	UK Government Proposes Copyright Reforms to Support AI and Creative Industries	The U.K. government has opened a consultation to explore ways to protect the rights of artists, writers, and composers when creative content is used to train AI models. The goal is to give creators control over their copyrighted material wh...
Mar 10, 2023	Gen Zers are bookworms but say they're shunning e-books because of eye strain, digital detoxing, and their love for libraries	The phone-obsessed Gen Z is surprisingly a sucker for paperback books. Three Gen Zers gave their reasons for preferring printed editions over e-books. Advertisement There's no doubt that Gen Z loves to read. This generation, defined as peop...
Feb 3, 2023	The UK rolls back controversial plans to open up text and data mining regulations	The U.K. government is seemingly backtracking on plans that would have allowed text and data mining “for any purpose,” plans designed to position the U.K. as a “global AI superpower.” The news emerges following months of blowback from creat...
May 23, 2016	Waterstones outsources its e-books biz to Kobo in a bid against Amazon	Kobo, the e-reading service owned by Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten, has notched up one more key brand among those that turning to the company to build out their e-books business in a collective bid to compete against the might of Amazon ...
May 16, 2016	UK e-book sales fall for first time—but audiobooks are on the up [Updated]	reader comments 7 with 7 posters participating Share this story Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Updated, 16/05/2016: As a knowledgeable reader pointed out, our initial impression that the statistics provided by the Publis...
May 13, 2016	UK ebook sales drop for the first time	It seems that our love affair with ebooks could be turning sour. For the first time since digital book sales were recorded, the number of ebooks sold in the UK dropped in 2015. Advertisement The drop could be partly explained by the fact th...
Jan 7, 2016	Successful Access to Research pilot leads to extension of service	- From ‘Roman Wales’ to ‘Ebola’: local library users able to continue searching over 10 million academic articles, free-of-charge - The Access to Research initiative, which gives users in public libraries free access to over 10 million acad...
Jul 6, 2015	UK Publishers Don't See Why Anyone's Complaining About Copyright Law	As the copyright reform effort is underway in Europe, a number of legacy players are running a bit scared. The UK Publishers Association published a rather amusing attempt at “mythbusting” claims that reformers are making about copyright. N...
May 11, 2015	UK Print Book Sales Fall As Ebooks Rise	Although U.S. print sales have been steady, the UK Publishers Association is reporting a very interesting trend. Generally, print revenues dropped 5 percent to £2.7 billion and ebook revenues rose by 11 percent to £563 million. While ebooks...
Jul 29, 2014	UK Police Replacing Ads On Piracy Sites With Warnings	UK police have started replacing ads on websites that provide access to pirated or copyright infringing material with warnings to web users that the site is on a watch list — and a call for them to close the browser page in question. The in...
Sep 24, 2012	Publishers Can't Seem To Celebrate The Ebook Boom Without Slipping In Odes To Copyright	The BBC reports on the success of ebook sales in the UK, which are up by 188% compared to last year. This is great news for authors and e-commerce. Ebook reading devices have become increasingly easy to use and the online shops for ebooks a...
Feb 16, 2012	UK Publishers Pretend To Embrace Copyright Reform… In Order To Kill Copyright Reform	One of the bolder ideas in the UK’s Hargreaves report was the suggestion that a Digital Copyright Exchange should be set up. The idea here is to promote innovative uses of digital content by making it much easier to acquire the necessary li...
Nov 21, 2011	UK Publishers Moan About Content Mining's Possible Problems; Dismiss Other Countries' Actual Experience	One of the recommendations made by the Hargreaves Review in the UK was that a text- and data-mining exception to copyright should be created, with the following explanation of why that made sense (PDF):
	В Великобритании цифровые книги отвоевывают продажи у печатных	Ассоциация издателей Великобритании сообщает интересную тенденцию: в то время как доходы от продажи печатных книг в 2014 году упали на 5% (до 2,7 млрд фунтов стерлингов), доходы от электронных публикаций выросли 11% (до 563 млн фунтов стерл...
	Publishers Ramp Up Pressure vs. Anna’s Archive, Sci-Hub, Z-Library & Libgen	In a world where many things seem vulnerable to change at a moment’s notice, the same world viewed from a more distant vantage point hardly seems to change at all. Whether for recreation or education, demand for published content in various...

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When was Publishers Association founded?

Publishers Association was founded in 1896.

What has the press written about Publishers Association?

Parsers VC has collected 20 articles mentioning Publishers Association, among them “Chad Nicholas Is Redefining Scary for Gen Z With Smart, Soul-Crushing Fiction: Horror That Haunts Across Platforms” (Jul 7, 2025) and “OpenAI and Google Reject UK Government’s AI Copyright Proposal” (Apr 7, 2025).

Is Publishers Association still active?

Yes, Publishers Association is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 16, 2025.