NBDB Book Club and Asia Pacific College students read Dean Francis Alfar's Salamanca
The NBDB Book Club will be joining World Literature students of Asia Pacific College as they discuss Dean Francis Alfar's fantasy novel Salamanca, Grand Prize winner of the Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature.
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Deadline for Tulaan sa Tren Poetry Writing Contest extended to July 30!
The National Book Development Board (NBDB), Light Rail Transit
Authority (LRTA), Vibal Foundation, and the Book Development Association of the Philippines (BDAP) are giving aspiring poets a chance to have their poems posted
in LRT trains as part of the Tulaan sa Tren readership promotion campaign:
NBDB awards 2008 Quality Seal to textbooks in Math and English
The
National Book Development Board (NBDB) awarded the 2008 NBDB Quality Seal to XL
Excelling in Mathematics 3 and Rainbows in English 5, both by Vibal Publishing
House last May 29 at Discovery Suites, Pasig City.
Aside
from serving as a badge of excellence to guide private schools in selecting
quality textbooks for students, the evaluation procedure of the Quality Seal also
helps publishers of nominated textbooks in improving the content of the books, which
undergo a rigorous evaluation process by experts from different reputable
learning institutions.
Authors and publishers can now rejoice, collective management in
the realm of book publishing and related industries is now a reality for them.
FILCOLS or Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society Inc., a local
collective management society, which the NBDB helped establish in 2008, is now a
member of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO),
the international organization of collective management societies based in Belgium. IFRRO currently has 56 member-RROs
worldwide.In an email communication
received by the NBDB, Mr. Olav Stokkmo, Chief Executive and Secretary General
of IFRRO, confirmed that the IFRRO Board, during its meeting on 3
June 2009, approved
FILCOL’s application for RRO membership in IFRRO.
The NBDB lauds the Department of Finance for suspending DO 17-09 or the Clarificatory Guidelines on the Duty-Free Importation of Books and encourages stakeholders to recognize current efforts of the DOF to encourage the free flow of books as enshrined in the UNESCO Florence Agreement.
Click the link below for the DOF's complete statement.
If there is one activity
that the household name Chris Tiu has been most successful at, it’s
multitasking. Already, at age twenty-three, he has performed and done well in
the many roles he’s had to play in his life, among them: athlete, star student,
television host, entrepreneur, local politician, brand endorser, ambassador for
social causes—even every teenage girl’s dream guy. Now, as if he doesn’t endure
enough stress juggling around these things (his daily practice and games,
tapings and photo shoots) Chris Tiu has taken in one more advocacy to add to
his shining roster of achievements: the National Book Development Board’s
(NBDB) Get Caught Reading (GCR) Campaign.
