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.
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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.
The senior senator from Minnesota Amy Klobuchar is the first woman to have been elected to the US Senate from her state. Her new book ‘Antitrust’ was released by Knopf Doubleday in April.
Amy Klobuchar. Image: Association of American Publishers
Pallante: ‘Complex and Urgent Problems of Our Time’
This morning (May 6), the Association of American Publishers (AAP) has announced that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is the recipient of the organization’s 2021 Award for Distinguished Public Service.
This is good news for those who will be attending the association’s annual meeting on June 2 when the senator will be given her award: Klobuchar is not only one of the most decisive voices in the Democratic choir of the moment but also has one of the better senses of humor on Capitol Hill, where intelligent laughs are direly needed.
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Taking their volunteer subjects to a functional magnetic resonance imaging scanner housed in the basement of UCSB’s Psychology Building, the researchers conducted an “empathy task” in which the participants were shown descriptions of happy, sad or neutral events, followed by corresponding emotional faces of their partners and of strangers.
The volunteers were asked to count backward by seven from a large number “to wash away the effects of experiencing any kind of emotion,” between the facial photo displays.
“Then they were asked to provide some responses to tell us how they felt when they were shown each face image,” Acevedo said. After that, the participants were instructed to relax, while their brains were scanned.