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Hello everyone. Thank you for turning out. I am laura miller and the books and poultry columnist for slate. Com. This is another social distancing social from [inaudible] in partnership with a partnership of slate, new American Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and im joined by priscilla who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, Brandon Hensley is the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hello, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you. You have to unmute. Hello, nice to see you. Thank you for having us. When i was asked to moderate this one of the things that it brought up or brought to mind or brought up in my memory was how ....
Hi. Thanks for turning out. Im laura miller and im the books and culture columnist for slate. Com. This is another social social distancing social from future tense in partnership with a partnership of slate, new america foundation, and Arizona State university. Today we talking about the future of books, and im joined by priscilla painton, who is Vice President and executive editor of simon and shuster and brandon tensley, a writer for cnn politics. Hi, i priscilla and brandon. You have to up mute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the things it brought up brought to mind are brought up in my memory is how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future of books and peopling making predictions but the future of ....
Politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. You have to unmute. Nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to sort of moderate this, one of the thing that it brought up brought to mind or brought null mill enemy he was now in the early how 200s there was a panel u. S. Discussion of the future of books and people making prediction about he 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 and most of the people saved at that time did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. And in particular, younger readers more than any other Demographic Group preferred print books. So, the idea that Book Publishing needed to change with this technology, maybe it did some ways but not maybe in ways that people thought, and im wondering first, priscilla, i dont ....