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News
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April 09, 2020SENATE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CHAIRMAN ADDRESSES INTERNET ARCHIVE’S “NATIONAL EMERGENCY LIBRARY”
The Association of American Publishers notes with great appreciation the attention of Senator Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee...
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April 07, 2020AAP JANUARY 2020 STATSHOT REPORT: PUBLISHING INDUSTRY UP 3.7%
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) today released its StatShot report for January 2020 reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, includi...
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March 27, 2020COMMENT FROM AAP PRESIDENT AND CEO MARIA PALLANTE ON THE INTERNET ARCHIVE’S “NATIONAL EMERGENCY LIBRARY”
“We are stunned by the Internet Archive’s aggressive, unlawful, and opportunistic attack on the rights of authors and publishers in the midst of the novel c...
Industry Data & Statistics
74%
of Americans have read a book in the past 12 months
1.8
Billion
print books sold by U.S. publishers in 2018
$1.3
Trillion
in value to the U.S. economy added by core copyright industries