AAP Annual Meeting Speakers: Lemon, Klobuchar, Stone
Three speakers were heard on issues of racial and social justice, monopoly power, and the evolution of very big tech in book retail.
Barbed wire is placed near the US Capitol on January 19 before the January 20 Biden inauguration. Sen. Amy Klobuchar talked at the Association of American Publishers of the inauguration being staged with ‘spray painting on the columns and makeshift windows behind us.’ Image – Getty iStockhpoto: ALF Snaiper
See also our coverage of the leadership elements of the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting. That story is here.
Amazon, Antitrust, and Nuance
‘Publishing drives political accountability,’ the Association of American Publishers’ Maria A. Pallante says in her annual meeting comments.
The Shaw neighborhood’s 9th Street NW in Washington, DC, the Association of American Publishers’ base, April 27.
Comments were made at the Association of American Publishers’ annual meeting by US Senator and author Amy Klobuchar, anchor and CNN author Don Lemon, and journalist and author Brad Stone. Read about those remarks here.
Publishing as ‘a Catalyst and a Driver’
A goal of a service organization’s annual general meeting, of course, is to make members feel good about themselves and their work. This is true not only in publishing but in almost every industry’s service organizations. “AGMs,” as annual general meetings are known, are motivational moments.
The new law requires any publisher offering to license an electronic literary product to consumers to also offer to license the content to public libraries on reasonable terms.
Trade books were up 34.2 percent in March, and 24.9 percent year-to-date in the American market.
In Times Square, May 18. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Massimo Giachetti
Year-to-Date Downloaded Audio up 21 Percent
In the StatShot report released Thursday (May 27) by the Association of American Publishers, the United States’ total revenues across all categories monitored by the system were up in March 40.2 percent as compared to March 2020. That brings the monetary figure to US$896.1 million.
Keep in mind that by March 6 of 2020, 21 passengers on a cruise ship off the coast of California had tested positive for the coronavirus COVID-19. On March 11, the World Health Organization would declare COVID-19 pandemic on March 11. Donald Trump declared a national emergency on March 13. And California would issue the United States’ first stay-at-home order on March 19.
In its second year, the distributor’s ‘All About Audio’ event again hears from key companies’ representatives on their offers and observations.
An audio listener in Moscow on April 16. Image – Getty iStockphoto: Yury Karamanenko
Nine ‘Makers of the Boom’
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Publishing Perspectives readers will remember the first outing of Bookwire’s “All About Audio” conference in June 2020. With its slightly dire-sounding message of “streaming is inevitable,” the first wave of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic‘s most furious outbreaks was only then easing up in many markets. Publishing’s “digital acceleration,” driven by the pathogen, still hadn’t been fully demonstrated by statistical analysis, though it clearly was a good bet.