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And 15 minutes. Hello, everybody. I am no welcoming you to the panel words wont die the brave new world of publishing. We are keeping the lights on now because cspan is recording this and they are having trouble recording when the lights are down. Sorry for the inconvenience but that is what it takes to be national. I want to put this panel into the context so you can understand why this is an important subject that if you think about it, before 1944, this year, books were handmade. If you think going back far it was a person with a hammer and a chisel and a piece of stone. You see them by hand copying the books come and these books were put into libraries and monasteries and if there was a fire if anything happened, the books died. Then in 1440 a major event which was the invention of the Printing Press and what happened in 1440, people started to be able to make multiple copies of books and that was a big deal because all of a sudden it wasnt one sitting in a monastery copying but th
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