‘A Useful Tool, Especially for Publishers’ Ijn announcing today (March 1) its new Publishing Distribution Platform, the Madrid-based International Publishing Distribution Association (IPDA) is collaborating with the And not unlike the digital publishing events we’ve been discussing in recent editions of our report, the new platform is another digital tool being added to the international industry’s efforts to develop and widen their business reach, opening new markets amid the constraints of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic—with no reason that its usefulness can’t go on in our vaccinated future. José Manuel Anta, managing director at FANDE, tells Publishing Perspectives, “During the last years, we’ve received feedback from different sources—especially at Frankfurter Buchmesse—from publishers and other content providers who are looking for distribution companies in various parts of the world, to gain more access into international markets.