Patricia Schroeder on Libraries, eBooks and Publishers

A clip from the RLTV show "Encore with John Palmer" I believe the original air date of this was 02/17/09
"Schroeder was named president and CEO of the Association of American Publishers in 1997 and served in that post for 11 years.[5] She has been a vocal proponent of stronger copyright law, supporting the government in Eldred v. Ashcroft and opposing Google's plan to digitize books and post limited content online. She has publicly criticized libraries for distributing electronic content without compensation to publishers, writers and others in the publishing industry, telling the Washington Post, "They aren't rich...they have mortgages."[6] At the same time, she has tried to make the publishing industry more socially responsible, cooperating with organizations for the blind and others with reading difficulties to help make materials more accessible to them, particularly by encouraging publishers to release books so that nonprofit groups can transfer them to electronic formats. She has also sat on the panel of judges for the PEN/Newman's Own Award, a $25,000 award designed to recognize the protection of free speech as it applies to the written word." -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Schroeder

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