Iowa. Governor branstad was recently nominated to be the next u. S. Ambassador to china. This is just over half an hour. Thank you 37 thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leader, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow eye eyans. Im honored to address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them, and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislature in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legislative leaders, legislators, judges, elected officials, distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow iowans. Im honored to address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them, and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislature in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each of you and listening to your ideas on how to make our state an even better place for familie
[ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. Speaker, madam speaker let me start over again here. Madam Lieutenant Governor, mr. President , madam speaker, legacy of leaders, legislators, justices and judges, elected officials and distinguished guests, family, friends and fellow iowans, im honored to once again address a joint session of the General Assembly delivering the condition of the state for the final time as your governor. For 22 years, i have addressed this body as governor and today i want to especially welcome the 22 new legislators who are with us from both sides of the aisle, who were elected in november. Your constituents sent you to work hard, to work for them and to help make iowa a better place. I hope youre filled with the same sense of excitement and eagerness i had when i first served in the legislator in 1973. Lieutenant Governor Reynolds and i look forward to working with each of you and listening to your ideas on how to make our s
Guest thats how its being referred to now in copyright circles. It is really, its become a ridiculous, absurd system. Service providers spend a lot of money on dealing with these notices and from the author perspective dont actually achieve getting anything taken down. So we are asking for a number of change to that part of the statute. Were also looking at collective licenses for books so that libraries can access copies of books and actually pay for them instead of having libraries and the googles saying, oh, we cant possibly license all these books, so it has to be fair use. That takes away a lot of income, ultimately, out of the market and from authors. So those are the big ones, but there are a bunch of issues. Host when you look at where we are in publishing in 2016, has there ever been another period in history where this revolution is happening like it is now . Well, when the yeah. I mean, when the beginning of publishing. It was a huge change in terms of the written word. It w
Said what if nobody comes so its nice of you all to come out. I know that some of you are here to talk about the book but the reality is we are fortunate to have with us two friends of mine, it will be more interesting and probably more fascinating to many of you, Jacob Weisberg who many of you may know as the chairman of the slate group, longtime journalist recently published a book on Ronald Reagan that i cant recommend highly enough, particularly in todays political environment and malcolm gladwell, a writer for the new yorker and a very insightful nonfiction bestseller so we talk a little bit tonight about my new book, the seven cents and one of the things that were going to get him very quickly is one of the big ideas in the seven cents is the idea that theres so many questions to answer that this model of us talking to you is not entirely the light model so we will do that but we also want to open it up for questions and debate and i hope people will talk about the guys that are