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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PGMA signs EO 885 eliminating taxes on imported books
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo recently signed Executive Order 885 “MODIFYING THE RATES OF IMPORT DUTY ON CERTAIN IMPORTED ARTICLES AS PROVIDED UNDER PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1464, AS AMENDED”, exempting imported books from customs duties.
The President signed EO 885 in response to last year’s protests against the Great Book Blockade. Early last year, the NBDB led local booksellers and book lovers in objection to the Department of Finance’s Department Order 17-09’s or the Clarificatory Guidelines on the Duty-Free Importation of Books which imposed customs and duties on imported books that entered the country.
The elimination of duties on books is aimed to promote and strengthen the development of education in the Philippines.
Anti-Book Piracy Council launched to fight book pirates
(l-r) Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society Exec. Director Alvin Buenaventura, IPO Deputy Director General Allan B. Gepty, Philippine National Police Deputy Director General Perfecto Palad, IPO Director General Ricardo R. Blancaflor, NBDB Chairman Dr. Dennis T. Gonzalez, NBI- IPRD Exec. Director Atty. Dante Bonoan, NBDB Exec. Director Atty. Andrea Pasion-Flores, Book Development Association of the Philippines President Lirio Sandoval and OMB Chairman and CEO Ronnie Ricketts
Manila, Philippines – Users, manufacturers and sellers of illegal photocopied books and textbooks in print and digital formats are numbered.
Starting May 2010, the newly formed Anti-Book Piracy Coalition (ABC) would go on full swing in its anti-book piracy campaign all-over the country.
The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Optical Media Board and the Philippine National Police (PNP), together with the National Book Development Board, Book Development Association of the Philippines and the Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society, have banded together through the leadership of the Intellectual Property Office - Philippines and launched the “Anti-Book Piracy Council (ABC)” on 26 May 2010 at the IPO Office in Makati City as a move to control incidents of book piracy and illegal photocopying inside and outside school campuses in the country at the start of the school year 2010-2011.
NBDB supports the 1st Gawad Panitikang Pangkalusugan : A Children's Storybook Writing Competition
ORGANIZER: Mu Sigma Phi Medical Sorority, Inc THEME: "Tabi-tabi po" (Exploring Philippine Health Myths)
Call for Entries
The contest is open to all individuals aged 18 and above and currently residing in the Philippines. Participants are challenged to break away from a clinical, straightforward, and sanitized presentation of health, and to mold it in a form that is enjoyable and of interest for its young audience.
Submission of nominations to the 1st National Children’s Book Awards extended up to May 28
In July of this year, the National Book Development Board
and the Philippine Board onBooks for
the Young present the first ever National Children’s Book Awards, giving honor
to the 10 best books for children and young adult for the years 2008 and 2009.
The deadline for nominations is on May 28, 2010. Click here for the full copy of the
rules. Click here to download nomination form.
In July of this year, the National Book Development Board
and the Philippine Board on
