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Artificial intelligence, online workshop on May 21, 2024, open to all !

Following the round table on Artificial Intelligence organised during the 2023 Babelica book fair (see here), online workshop is proposed on the challenges of AI for independent publishers (knowledge and understanding of how AI works and some of its tools, analysis of the challenges of AI for independent publishing from an intercultural perspective and with regard to bibliodiversity).

The workshop, led by Octavio Kulesz, will take place on May 21 at 12 pm UTC+2 (Paris time).

Here link to connect : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89330674149

This workshop is free, open to all and no registration is required.
This workshop is supported by Campus AFD.

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Alliance’s programme for 2024

1. The Alliance, a space for experimentation and reflection through the Bibliodiversity Observatory
Continue the analyses, reflections and advocacy via the 4 thematic working groups

  • Book ecology
  • Digital publishing : workshops on artificial intelligence
  • Public book policies : mapping public book policies in the Arab world (launch as part of a book fair in the Arab world at the end of 2024) + Guide to Good Practice for public book purchasing (translation and adaptation of this Guide for other geographical and linguistic areas)
  • Freedom to publish : publication of transversal analyses and a series of interviews and podcasts

Equipping and documenting international independent publishing

  • Guide to Good Practice (see here)
  • Bibliodiversité journal (see here) : special issue on precariousness in 2024

2. The Alliance, a space for collaboration and sharing
Sharing practices and expertise between publishers ; meeting up and strengthening the flow of exchanges

  • Workshops and exchanges of know-how, within the thematic groups and as part of Babelica
  • Virtual meetings, workshops and training sessions on themes defined with the Alliance’s thematic groups (with a particular focus on artificial intelligence and other themes).
  • On-site training (venue to be confirmed) for publishing houses in French-speaking Africa
  • Professional meetings at the Brussels Book Fair (4-7 April 2024) 

3. The Alliance, a tool for the promotion and the visibility of independent publishing
To encourage the visibility and promotion of independent publishing ; to promote the circulation of books and other publications by independent publishing houses

  • Babelica (see here), September 2024 (book fair, meetings and discussions dedicated to international independent publishing)
  • Tehran Book Fair, Uncensored (see here)
  • Presence of members at book fairs and exhibitions in 2024

4. The Alliance, a laboratory of alternative publishing practices
Pursue and strengthen solidarity-based publishing partnerships (transfer of rights, translations, co-publications, etc.)

  • Publishing groups by catalogue affinity (literature, humanities and social sciences and children’s literature) : online project fairs (transfer of rights, exchanges on publishing projects) + support for transfer of rights and co-publications (see here)
  • Publishing projects in progress and/or under consideration

Download the 2024 action plan

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Moussa et la poule reine

Auteur(s) : Julien ALIHONOU (MAKEJOS)
Pays de parution : Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinée, Mali
Langue(s) : français

Une coédition solidaire panafricaine : Éburnie (Côte d’Ivoire), Ganndal (Guinée), Sawa (Mali), Nstame (Gabon), Ruisseaux d’Afrique (Bénin)

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Kouvito dans les rues de Kokoli

Auteur(s) : Kenneth VIHOTOGBE
Pays de parution : Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, République démocratique du Congo
Langue(s) : français

Une coédition solidaire panafricaine : Éburnie (Côte d’Ivoire), Elondja (République démocratique du Congo), Sawa (Mali), Ruisseaux d’Afrique (Bénin)

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Rudia et les cybercriminels

Auteur(s) : Claude ADJAKA (Lenfan Claudio)
Pays de parution : Bénin, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali
Langue(s) : français

Une coédition solidaire panafricaine : Éburnie (Côte d’Ivoire), Sawa (Mali), Ruisseaux d’Afrique (Bénin)

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Vignon et les voleurs du quartier

Auteur(s) : Alexandre KOSSOVO
Pays de parution : Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinée, Mali
Langue(s) : français

Une coédition solidaire panafricaine : Éburnie (Côte d’Ivoire), Ganndal (Guinée), Sawa (Mali), Nstame (Gabon), Ruisseaux d’Afrique (Bénin), Sankofa & Gurli (Burkina Faso)

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La pensée blanche

Auteur(s) : Lilian THURAM
Pays de parution : Algérie, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, Guinée, Mali, Maroc, Sénégal, Togo
Prix : 5 000 FCFA, 65 000 GNF, 75 DH, 1 500 DA

Grâce à un partenariat entre la Fondation Lilian Thuram - Éducation contre le racisme et l’Alliance internationale des éditeurs indépendants, 11 maisons d’édition en Afrique francophone coéditent La pensée blanche, publié initialement aux éditions Philippe Rey (France).

La pensée blanche est disponible dans les pays suivants  : Algérie (Apic), Bénin (Ruisseaux d’Afrique), Burkina Faso (Sankofa & Gurli), Cameroun (Presses universitaires d’Afrique), Côte d’Ivoire (Éburnie), Gabon (Éditions Nstame), Guinée (Ganndal), Mali (Jamana), Maroc (Le Fennec), Sénégal (Papyrus d’Afrique), Togo (Graines de Pensées).

Date de parution : novembre 2023
Format : 14,5 X 22 cm ; 320 pages

Écoutez ici l’interview de Lilian Thuram dans le cadre du Salon international de l’édition indépendante en ligne, Babelica, le 20 septembre 2023.

Le livre
Qu’est-ce qu’être blanc ? Plus qu’une couleur de peau, n’est-ce pas plutôt une pensée ? Qui sont ceux qui l’ont inventée, et pourquoi ? Ce livre raconte l’histoire de la pensée blanche, son origine et son fonctionnement, la manière dont elle divise, comment elle s’est répandue à travers le monde au point d’être aujourd’hui universelle, jusqu’à infuser l’air que l’on respire. Depuis des siècles, la pensée blanche est une norme, la fossilisation de hiérarchies, de schémas de domination, d’habitudes qui nous sont imposées. Elle signifie aux Blancs et aux non-Blancs ce qu’ils doivent être, quelle est leur place. Comme la longue emprise des hommes sur les femmes, elle est profondément ancrée dans nos mentalités et agit au quotidien. Seule sa remise en question permettra d’avancer pour passer à autre chose. Il ne s’agit pas de culpabiliser ni d’accuser, mais de comprendre les mécanismes à l’œuvre, d’en prendre conscience pour construire de nouvelles solidarités. Le temps n’est-il pas venu d’élargir nos points de vue pour nous considérer tous enfin comme des êtres humains ?

Lilian Thuram est né en Guadeloupe en 1972. Il a créé en 2008 la fondation Éducation contre le racisme, pour l’égalité. Il est l’auteur de plusieurs ouvrages dont Mes étoiles noires (Philippe Rey, 2010, prix Seligmann contre le racisme ; coédition solidaire en Afrique francophone, Madagascar et Haïti, 2014), Manifeste pour l’égalité (Autrement, 2012) et Notre histoire (Delcourt, 2014 et 2016). Il a été commissaire général de l’exposition « Exhibitions. L’invention du sauvage », au musée du Quai-Branly en 2011. Prix de l’éthique de la Fondation Kéba-Mbaye au Sénégal en 2014, il est docteur honoris causa en sciences humaines des universités de Stockholm en Suède et de Stirling en Écosse. Dans une première vie, il a connu une carrière prestigieuse de footballeur international. Avec l’équipe de France, il a été Champion du monde en 1998 et Champion d’Europe en 2000.

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Bel abîme

Auteur(s) : Yamen MANAI
Pays de parution : Algérie, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, Guinée, Maroc, Maurice, Sénégal, Togo
Langue(s) : français
Prix : 700 DA, 50 DH, 3 500 FCFA, 50 000 GNF, 350 Rs

Yamen Manai nous conte avec fougue le cruel éveil au monde d’un adolescent révolté par les injustices. Heureusement, il a Bella. Entre eux, un amour inconditionnel et l’expérience du mépris dans cette société qui honnit les faibles jusqu’aux chiens qu’on abat « pour que la rage ne se propage pas dans le peuple ».
Mais la rage est déjà là.

Né en 1980 à Tunis, Yamen Manai vit à Paris. Ingénieur, il travaille sur les nouvelles technologies de l’information. Bel abîme (Prix Orange du livre en Afrique 2022, Prix de la littérature arabe 2022…) et ses précédents romans, La marche de l’incertitude (2010), La sérénade d’Ibrahim Santos (2011) et L’amas ardent (2017, Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie) sont publiés aux éditions Elyzad en Tunisie.

Maisons d’édition coéditrices : Amalion (Sénégal), Apic (Algérie), Atelier des nomades (Ile Maurice), Ganndal (Guinée), Graines de Pensées (Togo), Le Fennec (Maroc), Proximité (Cameroun), Sankofa & Gurli (Burkina Faso)
Date de publication de la version panafricaine : 2023, 11,5 X 19 cm
© Elyzad, 2021.

Une coédition solidaire « Le livre équitable ».

Collection Terres solidaires

Créée en 2007, la collection « Terres solidaires » est une expérience collective. Elle propose des textes littéraires d’autrices et auteurs africain.e.s, édités par un collectif de maisons d’édition en Afrique francophone. Grâce au principe de la coédition solidaire, les textes circulent, sont disponibles et accessibles pour les lecteurs africains ; l’écosystème du livre local est préservé et renforcé.
La collection « Terres solidaires » est soutenue par l’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).

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Babelica 2023 available on replay !

The International online Book Fair of Independent Publishing was held from 20 to 22 September. The Babelica programme (readings in Arabic, Creole, Mapuche, etc. ; round tables on artificial intelligence, decolonial ecology, inclusive publishing, cartoneras in Latin America, translation in the Arab world, solidarity co-publishing, etc. ; meetings with Lilian Thuram and Vandana Shiva, etc.) can be (re)viewed and (re)listened to in replay on the Alliance’s YouTube channel.

The Babelica Book Fair (bringing together over 90 publishers from around the world) is available online throughout the year, until the next edition of Babelica in 2024 !

The International Alliance of Independent Publishers would once again like to thank Babelica’s partners (Campus AFD and the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie) ; Maxime Guedj (PCFH Studio) and Thibault Daumain, who designed and developed the Babelica platform ; all the speakers ; the team of interpreters and everyone else who contributed to the success of this second edition !

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Meeting of the International Committee of Independent Publishers (ICIP), 24-26 October 2023, Paris (France)

The ICIP’s annual meeting, a key opportunity to build the Alliance’s 2024 action plan and also to review the operation, organisation and associative life of the association, will bring together all the coordinators of the language networks for a 3-day meeting.

A session open to all Alliance members is scheduled for 25 October, from 2pm to 4pm (French time).

The programme is available here

Read the programme

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Bibliodiversity Observatory

The “Fair Trade Book”

The label “Fair Trade Book” is attributed by the International Alliance of independent publishers to works published in the context of international publishing agreements that respect each other’s particularities : fair co- publishing. These fair copublishings enable the sharing of costs linked to intellectual and physical production of books and therefore ensure an economy of scale ; an exchange of professional know-how and a common experience, while respecting the publishers’ cultural contexts and identities ; and a distribution of works on a broader scale by adjusting prices for each geographic zone.

The Fair Trade Book, a solidarity label

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Guidelines for Fair Publishing Partnerships

Over the past few years, the predation of large companies from the North on the book trade in Africa has undergone some partnership-related changes. An evolution of practices is observable amongst the large publishing companies from the North, who do not solely rely on local publishing houses’ acquisitions, but also on establishing partnerships with local publishers. How can we guarantee that these partnerships are balanced and fair ? How can we ensure that publishers from the South do not “sell their souls” through collaborations with large companies from the North ? To accompany these changes, the Alliance has drafted a handbook of practical guidelines for its members, which serves as a reminder on essential checkpoints to look out for.

Should you have comments, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The Alliance thanks Double ponctuation for writing the vademecum.

Read the unabridged vademecum_in French

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Digital publishing in developing countries

In partnership with the Prince Claus Foundation, the Alliance commissioned Octavio Kulesz, a digital publisher in Argentina, to carry out a study on digital publishing in developing countries. This first-ever study, the result of eight months of research, is available in French, English and Spanish on the website : http://alliance-lab.org/etude/?lang=en

Who are the new digital players in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Arab world and in Russia, China and India ? Can digital publishing develop autonomously in the emerging economies, independently from the rich countries ? What support policies are required to stimulate the growth of this new industry and help the traditional publishing sector adapt to the changes ? Based on interviews, questionnaires and meetings, Octavio Kulesz provides an overview of digital publishing in these six regions and puts forward concrete proposals aimed at independent publishers. Digital publishing experience in the South offers an insight into the major opportunity that new technologies present for developing countries — especially when it comes to distribution — as long as local entrepreneurs seek innovative models suited to the concrete needs of their communities.

This online study is ongoing and interactive. We invite your contributions and feedback.

The study is also available in PDF, EPUB and MOBI.

Year of publication : 2011 ; ISBN French version : 978-2-9519747-5-3 ; ISBN Spanish version : 978-2-9519747-4-6 ; ISBN English version : 978-2-9519747-6-0

Visit the Alliance Lab to read the update to the study written by Octavio Kulesz in 2016 (available in French and in Spanish).

Collection État des lieux de l’édition

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Proteggere il libro (Protect the Book, Italian version)

Langue(s) : italien

“« Protect” the Book » by Markus GERLACH, a report from the collection “Reports on the Publishing World”, is now available in Italian from the Italian Federation of Independent Publishers (FIDARE), which translated and published this new edition.
This reference book has been translated into several languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian).

Year of publication : 2010, 68 pages, 15 X 21 cm, 8 euros.

Collection État des lieux de l’édition

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Communiqué in support of Txalaparta Publishing following attacks on « El manual del torturador español » and on freedom of expression, December 2010

Paris, December 2010

It is with great concern that the International Alliance of Independent Publishers has noted the recent censorship of a book in Spain, and the threats made against the independent publishing house Txalaparta, member of the Alliance’s Spanish-speaking network.

The book in question, « El manual del torturador español » (The Spanish Torturer’s Manual) – by Xabier MAKAZAGA denounces the torture carried out by the Spanish police. The book was withdrawn from a public library (in the Basauri town council), following a request by a political party and certain Madrid newspapers to remove it from all libraries where it was made available to readers. However the practices described in this book support the accusations already made in reports by Amnesy International and by the UN Recorder on Human Rights. The campaign against this book has already been publicly denounced by public librarians. Furthermore the Basque Country Human Rights Observer (Behatokia) sent a letter of protest to Frank de la Rue, Special Recorder on Human Rights and Freedom of Expression with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, whose headquarters are in Geneva.

The International Alliance of independent publishers, whose objectives include defending freedom of expression and denouncing all forms of censorship, also has a duty to respond publicly when attacks or infringements are directed – for ideological reasons – against independent publishers, whose very job it is to encourage the dissemination of ideas and to contribute to forging the identity of people and their culture.

One has only to examine Txalaparta’s publishing catalogue to appreciate the vast range of literary works and essays which constitute an undeniable contribution to bibliodiversity, while reflecting a clear editorial policy.

This is why we independent publishers are appealing to the Spanish authorities to respect the work of independent publishers and to encourage respect for fundamental rights and democracy.

We also appeal to independent publishers, booksellers, librarians and readers to follow the development of this matter closely and to express their support to Txalaparta Publishing in order to defend and respect the right to information that is true and diverse.


The Spanish-language network of the International Alliance of independent publishers

Read the communiqué by Txalaparta Publishing_in Spanish

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Preferential postage rates for books : urgent for Latin America, August 2010

Massively used by small publishing firms to distribute their products to bookstores, libraries, and readers, the postal service is the most popular means of circulating books throughout the world. However, the absence, suppression or questioning of special postage for books is an impediment to bibliodiversity in many countries.
In Latin America, with a huge territory to cover and limited circulation, a large share of publishers ensures the delivery of their products themselves. For these publishers, preferential postage rates for shipping books are all the more vital.

Read the advocacy

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Children’s book trade between France and francophone Africa

In this remarkable document, Marion Van Staeyen highlights the persistent imbalance in the book trade between France and francophone Africa, between North and South, specifically concerning children’s books. Some alternatives are appearing, however, to promote access to northern markets for African publishers. Many stakeholders in the sector – among them the International Alliance of independent publishers – are calling for an active and direct redress of the trade imbalance between North and South. A graduate in sociology and editing, Marion Van Staeyen is a second-year master’s student at University of Paris XIII, majoring in the book trade. She is currently attending classes at Sherbrooke University in Quebec, thanks to a partnership between the two universities.

Documents in French.

Table of Contents

Children’s books - trade between France and french-speaking Africa

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Solidarity with Iranian publishers, August 2009

Pays de parution : Iran

In view of the worrying situation in Iran and the attacks on freedom of expression, the publishers of the Alliance wish to express their solidarity with their Iranian colleagues. They demand the right to publish freely and call for increased cultural and editorial exchanges with Iran.

Read the press release

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