The IBPA Advocacy Committee, standing up for indie publishers, with Mel Corrigan
Inside Independent Publishing (with IBPA)
English - June 11, 2020 07:05 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsSociety & Culture Business publishing media writing bookselling marketing books book design ebooks book distribution book marketing Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The IBPA Advocacy Committee is making plans for this coming year to lobby, write, and campaign for better awareness and fairness for independent publishers. Committee member Mel Corrigan discusses some of these initiatives, from distribution to piracy to copyrights.
Topics Coveredmission of the Advocacy Committeeinitiativespiracyaccess to distributioncontent protectionthe CASE Act, Internet Archive, Audible Captionsadvocation for indie publishers in broader terms, such as inclusiveness and diversitychanging perceptions of indie publishers by review mediahow to join the committeeLinksScribe Publishing Company
https://scribe-publishing.com
Mel’s' profile on Scribe Publishing Company's website
https://scribe-publishing.com/mel
About the Internet Archive
https://controlleddigitallending.org/whitepaper
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/books/internet-archive-emergency-library-coronavirus.html
About the CASE Act
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/479123/IBPA-Members-Encouraged-to-Join-CASE-Act-Social-Media-Campaign-Nov-25-30-2019.htm
About Audible Captions
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/467194/Updated-News-Related-to-Audible-Captions-Program.htm
IBPA's response to Amazon cutting book orders in preparation for Black Friday (November 2019)
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/478273/IBPA-Response-to-Amazon-Cutting-Book-Orders-to-Publishers.htm
IBPA's: Amazon's third party buy button policy hurts publishers (May 2017)
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/344366/Amazons-Buy-Button-Policy-Change-Hurts-Publishers-and-Authors.htm
IBPA's call to action regarding the Amazon buy button policy (June 2017)
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/news.asp?id=349854
Update on the Amazon buy button policy (Fall 2017 update)
https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/368798/IBPAs-Fall-2017-Update-on-the-Amazon-Buy-Button-Policy-Change.htm
Mel Corrigan is a member of the IBPA Advocacy Committee and the Business & Marketing Manager at Scribe Publishing Company in Royal Oak, Michigan. She joined the team in 2012 during the launch of the company’s first novel as project manager and editorial assistant and established an in-house royalty tracking system as well as other business and finance reporting.
To see what she’s currently reading, follow her on Goodreads. You can read more at scribe-publishing.com/Mel or find her on watch her interview with Indie Reads TV.
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/.