Consortium
- AIE
The Associazione Italiana Editori (Italian Publishers Association) is the trade association for Italian and foreign publishers operating in Italy or who publish books, magazines and digital products in Italian. AIE counts around 400 members, which represent around 90% of the total national book production. In last years AIE couples the more traditional activities related to the representation of the interests of Italian publishers with a wide range of services provided to publishing world. These services includes market surveys, particularly on digital publishing; training activities; management of databases (particularly the database of text book market); participation to national and international book-fairs with collective stands; publications (the Giornale della Libreria, the Italian leader book-trade magazine, a series of "Reports of the Research Department", a monthly newsletter and a website). A particular attention is paid to the development of publishing standards; in this field AIE manages the Italian ISBN agency and is one of the two shareholders of mEDRA, the multilingual European DOI Registration Agency. - FEP
Federation of European Publishers (FEP) is an independent, non-commercial umbrella association of book publishers associations in the European Union. FEP represents 26 national associations of book publishers of the European Union and of the European Economic Area. FEP is the voice of the great majority of publishers in Europe. Founded in 1967, FEP deals with European legislation and advises publishers’ associations on copyright and other legislative issues.
FEP works in close collaboration with the European Institutions to ensure that high quality European content is available to European consumers and also to international markets. Publishers play a vital role in ensuring that content has a high standard. FEP encourages the Institutions of the European Union to implement positive policies for European publishing, to promote the competitiveness of European publishing and to underpin European educational standards and Europe’s cultural identity by ensuring by every means the widest availability of books and learned journals. - Dedicon
Dedicon is a state subsidised organisation, which makes information accessible to people with a print impairment by producing and distributing information in alternative reading formats. Dedicon provides learning materials in Braille, spoken text, and swell paper diagrams, among other items. Dedicon has 26,000 clients for general audio materials, 15,000 clients for spoken newspapers and 2,600 clients for study materials. The services are demand-based and when a particular book is not to be found in Braille or Spoken format, arrangements are immediately made to add it to the collection. Every year just under 1 million pages are produced in Braille, and some 2.3 million pages are reproduced. The collection of spoken books contains about 115,000 titles, with 3,500 new titles being produced every year. There is a collection of about 4,000 Braille Music scores and 500 Spoken Music scores. Each year just under 10,000 tactile drawings are produced and 50,000 are reproduced. Strategies for enhancing access to information for the print disabled have increasingly focused on web-based information delivery and the Dedicon web portal increasingly provides the main point of access to information.