The Federation organised National Conventions of Indian Language Publishers in 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2000 with view to bringing together publishers of Indian languages on one platform.

The Federation has also been organising the Delhi Book Fair since 1995 which provides a big opportunity to Indian publishers to expose their books to a vast number of readers. Delhi Book Fair has since established itself as an annual cultural event in the history of Delhi and showcases the progress made by Indian publishing over the years.

The Federation effectively serves the cause of Indian publishing by sponsoring and supporting proposals and projects and benefit the publishing industry and the market it serves in India. This is does by acting as an interface for the publishing industry with the ministries of Human Resource Development, Finance, Commerce, Defence, the National Book Trust and other Government Departments and agencies.

The Federation’s advice cooperation and assistance on all matters of mutual assistance has invariably been sought by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, The National Book Trust, and other organisations and agencies in India and abroad concerned with the publishing industry, promotion of books, and cause of education and literacy in general.

The Federation promotes interaction between Indian and foreign publishers to enable them to enlarge and exploit areas of mutually profitable cooperation. Delegations of the Federation have, in recent years, represented the country in China, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and countries of the erstwhile USSR.

Two Federation has a Scheme to give Award for Excellence in Book Production which is applicable to all publishes both in the private and public sector. The Federation has also instituted the Distinguished Publishers Award and Distinguished Women Publishers Award for selected women publishers which are the most coveted awards for the publishers. All these Awards are Industry’s benckmarks in assessing national book production standards. The Federation also gives Freedom to Publish Award to a publisher annually, who shows courage to publish controversial books without fear of the wrath of the fundamentalists or any action by the state. And now the Federation has also instituted the Young Publishers Award, the Award for Distinguished Editors and Designers and the Award for Distinguished Translators.

The Federation has expanded its activities and opened three separate Divisions (i) Export Marketing Council; (ii) Copyright Council and Copyright Centre; and (iii) Educational Publishing Council.

The main objective of the Export Marketing Council is to encourage Indian Publishers to develop their book business abroad. The Copyright Council organises Copyright Seminars and Copyright Refresher Courses in various parts of the country to create awareness about Copyright and to stress India’s deep commitment in Copyright protection and anti-piracy. The Copyright Centre acts as the clearing house for giving information about the various formalities required for exchange of translation and reprint rights and encourage Indian publishers in the exchange of translation rights both nationally and internationally. The Educational Publishing Council looks after all aspects of education publishing and promotion of educational books.