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Appearance right here in d. C. Good day at 9a starts right now. . . And good day dc. D dc it is 901 on this wednesday wedd morning december 7th is theths date. Im holly morris alongsideisngsi maureen, steve and wisdom. Is all right. Also ahead, this morning, manassas eighth grader getting t very lucky middle schooler just awarded 25,000. 2500 thats not luck. That is skill. When it comes to science. Within ago national scienceence etmpetition. Bob barnard just talked with her and well check in with himithim coming up. U first at 9 00 lets talk about the weather because were going to get a littl...

Host booktv ozzie spend too would get the different aspects of the publishing world and one of those is the Authors Guild says she is the executive director of the group. What is that, Mary Rasenberger . Organization started in 1912 that a was to represent coauthors interest copyrights, freespeech we have been doing the same thing for over 100 years we represent their interests than publisher is we just had up panel on contract initiatives where we are looking at the standard trade Publishing Agreement and asking questions if the terms are the same in the digital world. We have 9,000 members w...

And we were trying to help with the stimulus bill. I remember standing on the floor, just looking at us losing tens of thousands of jobs a month and we wound up losing 8 million jobs. California was a mass. The real estate situation hit us. We were struggling. Families were distraught and im running for reelection in fee arena is blaming everything on me, even when it rains and shes blaming everything on me and its tight. He says hes have you seen her hair and he said it is so yesterday. And she starts laughing. Now the truth is about my hair, i have many bad hair days, but i thought that mome...

Takes place online or in person. I think our mission has stayed very much the same even though the way we might deliver those services has changed. But we do have a new Strategic Plan that will well be coming t with shortly, so youll see how some things have changed and how were trying to better reach the communitys needs. I just wanted to take just a quick second to thank everyone. Like i said, we could go on forever. I wish we had some more time to talk about some more things, but i want to thank becky clark from the library of congress. Visit the library of congress. I want to thank mary el...

That represents all authors, and were trying to ensure that authors can make a living today and its getting harder and harder. So we did a survey of our members about a year ago where we found that as we had suspected from anecdotal evidence that authors are making less money, and our survey actually showed us that the mean income was down over 30 , from a mean annual income of 24,000 a year to just 17,500. So were talking about pretty low wages for a book author, who tend to be very highly educated, and its getting to the point where its becoming really unsustainable to be a book author. So, ...