The International Publishers Association (IPA), based in Geneva, Switzerland, is the world’s largest federation of national, regional and specialist publishers’ associations. Our membership comprises of 106 member associations in 86 countries. Through its members, IPA represents thousands of individual publishers around the world who service more than 5.6 billion people. IPA is also an accredited non-governmental organisation (NGO) enjoying consultative relations with the United Nations.

IPA was founded in 1896 in Paris with the promotion and defence of copyright and the freedom to publish as pillars which stand to this day.