Distancing social from future tense in partnership, a partnership of slate, new America Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and then joined by Priscilla Painton who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, and Brandon Tensley was the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you have to unmute. A, nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to moderate this, one of the things that it brought up, brought to mind area broader in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at the time, did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. In particular, y
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Many students today take the s. A. T. During the spring, during the school day. Thats about 700,000 students who missed that chance. Woodruff all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by life isnt a straig line, and sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. Fidelity is here to help you work through the unexpected, with Financial Planning and advice for today, and tomorrow. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. At www. Hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Major new developments in the covid19 pandemic. The United States reaches 90,000 deaths out of 1. 5 million cases, as more of the country loosens restrictions. There is potentially promising