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على Mar 04, 2019 3:11 PM

The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations specialized agency, and its partners created the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) in 2014 to help implement the Marrakesh...

على Feb 14, 2019 4:34 AM

The short-list for the 2019 ABC International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing has been published. The names of the winners will be unveiled at the awards ceremony to be held at the...

على Jan 04, 2019 9:02 AM

The WIPO-led Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) celebrates January 4th as World Braille Day, which was designated as such for the first time in 2019 by the United Nations General Assembly to mark...

على Dec 03, 2018 10:47 AM

Hugo Setzer is President-elect of the International Publishers Association and CEO of Manual Moderno, a Mexico-based publisher of educational texts. In both roles, he is working towards producing...

على Nov 28, 2018 3:33 PM

The WIPO-led Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) and the Kalimat Foundation of the United Arab Emirates have agreed to collaborate on the production of a range of Arabic-language books specially...

على Nov 16, 2018 4:33 PM

Four new catalogues of accessible titles containing over 42,000 titles were recently uploaded to the ABC Global Book Service. These collections were supplied by the Bibliothèque et Archives...

على Nov 06, 2018 4:50 AM

ABC is now inviting nominations for the 2019 Accessible Books Consortium International Excellence Award for Accessible Publishing. This award recognizes outstanding leadership and achievements in...

على Oct 02, 2018 8:02 AM

The European Union has joined the Marrakesh VIP Treaty in a big expansion in membership for the accord, which eases the creation and transfer across national boundaries of texts specially adapted...