International Alliance of Independent Publishers

38 rue Saint-Sabin75011 Paris

ounded in 2002, the International Alliance of Independent Publishers is a non-profit association which coordinates an international network comprising 85 publishing houses and groups of publishers from 45 countries. The Alliance organizes international meeting and carries out advocacy work to foster independence. It also backs international publishing projects — in the form of assistance with translation or co-publishing. Finally, the Alliance contributes to the promotion and diffusion of productions from the South to the North and modestly tries to invert one-way trade flows. The Alliance thus contributes to enhancing the accessibility of works and ideas, to defending and promoting bibliodiversity.The Alliance has set up 5 linguistic networks. Official communication documents – including this very website – are published in the Alliance’s three working languages: French, Spanish and English. This limitation doesn’t convey any political judgment; it merely responds to necessary budget realism, given translation costs. We hope our Portuguese-speaking, Arabic-speaking, Persian-speaking interlocutors – and those of so many other languages! – will forgive us.