While much is going right for the book business, Hachette Book Group CEO and AAP chair Michael Pietsch said that, in the current moment, publishing is dealing with “the biggest set of simultaneous challenges our industry has faced in a generation.” In addition to the ongoing pandemic, the book business is confronted with “sensational and outrageous book bans, an unprovoked war in Ukraine…and unrelenting efforts to weaken the copyright framework.”
Source: AAP Annual Meeting Spotlights Copyright, First Amendment Concerns