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 Covered

• mission of the Advocacy Committee
• initiatives
• piracy
• access to distribution
• content protection
• the CASE Act, Internet Archive, Audible Captions
• advocation for indie publishers in broader terms, such as inclusiveness and diversity
• changing perceptions of indie publishers by review media
• how to join the committee

Links

Scribe 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

https://www.ibpa-online.org/news/462153/IBPA-Statement-on-Audibles-Caption-Program.htm?fbclid=IwAR2zBPA62X4mLtCWRJacLb3qJRwWqvEuQViAORlttZXZNIMvKm4s5ay6o4s

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

Participants

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/.