Adapting to the Digital Age: A Q&A with Association of American Publishers President and CEO Patricia S. Schroeder
Schroeder recently spoke with Book Business Extra about how the business of book publishing has changed since she first assumed her role with the AAP more than a decade ago, and what she anticipates on the horizon for publishers of all sizes.
Book Business Extra: How have the AAP’s main focuses shifted in the past decade since you first came on board?
Patricia S. Schroeder: I suppose that digitalization has hit everyone big time. And dealing with copyright in the new digital world gets to be a bigger issue everyday. Book publisher are investment bankers in copyright. If you take [their] copyright away, [they] don’t have anything. Dealing with copyright in this new world has been a real interesting challenge for everyone. … [Book publishers] have to deal a lot more with government [now]—first with the copyright, then with piracy. We’re getting pirated more and more. We have to deal with that.
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