The ASEAN Book Publishers Asssociation (ABPA) was established in 2005.

● To exchange ideas among ABPA member countries.

● To encourage the best business practices and legal infrastructure among ABPA members.

● To expand co-publishing programmes and support distribution, translation and rights sales among ABPA members.

● To promote better understanding and goodwill among ASEAN countries.

● To have better representation in international forums.

● To promote and protect by all lawful means the principles of copyright on which depend the encouragement and authorship, publishing and dissemination of creative works and to defend copyright against all infringements which may restrict the rights of authors and publishers.

● To eradicate illiteracy and publish more books an educational material.

● To encourage the best business practices and legal infrastructure among ABPA members.

● To promote improvements in editorial and production standards through training and the use of technology; and to develop more efficient distribution channels.

● To seek the abolition of all tariffs and restrictions, as much as possible, on the importation or exportation of books and raw materials thereoff and all present and future forms of electronically retrieved information in order to strengthen the enforcement of the capital Florence Agreement on the free flow of information;

● To give effect to these objectives by establishing such bodies, conventions and other types of meetings and organizations as are necessary for dealing with all problems affecting publishing;

● To provide endorsement and support to APPA and IPA.