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Within a matter of
days, President Trump executed two important people. One was the head of The
Library of Congress and the other the director of the Office of Copyrights.
This gives you a strong indication of what the book world has to deal with.
Few people get fired from such positions. Their
terms end naturally or death or sickness is thr culprit for no longer serving.
But with Trump, who made a living on TV’s The Apprentice by telling people
“You’re Fired,” he could not resist in engaging in areas in which he should not
involve himself.
He thought the LOC president was too woke as the
first black woman to hold the position. For the Copyright Office, that person
stood in his way regarding AI-created content ownership.
This all comes on top of concerns with how tariffs
could derail the book industry, with libraries dealing with funding shortfalls
by a DOGE intent on cutting the good with the bad, and with school and public
libraries dealing with book bans.
Most writers have their own stuff to deal with,
such as finding time to write, seeking a publisher, and struggling with
marketing.
Publishers tend to their usual issues, as well,
from how to sell more books and foreign rights to how they can fulfill their
cultural mission of publishing quality books and promoting literacy.
We all can use a break from government
interference with the business of publishing, the art of writing, and the act
of reading. If the White House wants to be helpful, it would use its megaphone
in the cause of something good, like making a writer’s royalties tax-free,
investing more in libraries, and taking a more aggressive approach to literacy?
Otherwise, Mr. Trump, please mute yourself when it
comes to the cultural arts.
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has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah
Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association,
Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and
Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the
2024 IBPA Book Awards.
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