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Association of Belgian Publishers (ADEB) is a non-profit organization that groups together Belgian professional publishers and distributors of French-language publications, whatever the medium. ADEB works as the spokesperson of these professions.
To fulfill its mission, ADEB has set the following goals
- To group together: To group together all publishers, regardless of their size, speciality, and all distributors.
- To represent: To represent Belgian French-speaking publishing as a sector of economic & cultural activities.
- To defend: To defend the interests of the profession in Belgiqum and abroad.
- To notify and assist: To keep members up to date with everything that could influence their activitiess, and to respond to specific requests.
What we do
Association of Belgian Publishers (ADEB) aims to defend both the ethical and economic interests of its members. It promises to promote them to the public authorities, in cultural activities, in the media and to the wider public.
The publishers agree, through their membership, to respect the professional ethical code of the industry, set out in the Code des usages.
In addition, ADEB provides its members example template contracts and legal advice.
ADEB is also attentive to the evolution of the publishing industry, particularly those developments concerning new technologies and the interprofession. To this end, ADEB is a cofounder of PILEn (Partenariat interprofessionnel du livre et de l’édition numérique – The Interprofessional Partnership of Books and Digital Editions), along with Espace livres & création, the Syndicat des librairies francophones de Belgique (the Union of French-language Booksellers in Belgium) and MEDAA (European House of Authors).
Every year ADEB collects the statistics of production regarding the production of the industry, concerning both paper and digital copies, which reflects the dynamic nature of its members.
By means of its newsletter or through training activites, ADEB circulates information regarding the profession to its members.
In addition to its professional federal role, ADEB also ensures the promotion of publishers of the Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles abroad. To do this, it benefits from the support of Hub.Brussels, the Agence Wallonne à l’Exportation (AWEX) and Wallonie-Bruxelles International (WBI).
ADEB also has a presence at the heart of a variety of national and international organisations, such as the International Publishers Association (IPA) and the Federation of European Publishers (FEP).
We therefore play our small part in the incredible world of publishing !
