[stylist] Writers' Division February Telephone Gathering- Association of American Publishers

[Eve Sanchez]

Curious Robert, why do you say entering a contest is a risk? Eve

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Robert Leslie Newman <newmanrl at cox.net>wrote:

> Dear Writers' Division and/or STYLIST Member
>
> RE: February 26th Telephone Gathering
>
> Topic: Guest speaker from the Association of American Publishers
>
>
>
> In my quest to arrange for meaningful topics and guest presenters, I
> recently made a Google search on publishing, and after sending out a
> variety
> of  emails to publishers, authors, societies and/or associations of the
> same
> --- I did get a promising response back from Andi Sporkin Vice President,
> Communications for AAP:  Association of American Publishers.
> http://www.publishers.org
>
>
>
> I wrote that we were a group of writers and were looking to get smarter
> about our craft. Below I'll paste in some of the text of 2 of our recent
> emails. Read it and you will get a sense of what we can expect on Sunday,
> February 26th at 7:30 PM-
>
>
>
> **Andi writes in her initial email: What AAP could offer is probably more
> informational than inspirational.  We are the trade association for
> publishers and we mainly provide advocacy for them on behalf of policy,
> legislative, trade and regulatory issues.   Because of the nature of our
> organization, we don't work with authors so the extent of knowledge or
> advice we might have in that direction is pretty limited.  We can, however,
> talk about issues facing those in the broader publishing industry  and I
> could have AAP staff speak on such areas as:
>
>
>
> --protection of authors' intellectual property and copyright, the piracy
> problem and anti-piracy efforts in force including monitoring, takedowns
> and
> the need for legislation (the SOPA and PIPA bills, for instance)
>
>
>
> --First Amendment issues - Freedom to Read, Freedom to Publish,
> international activities
>
>
>
> --publishing's expansion in digital technology and the implications -
> what's
> ahead, how publishers are producing for new technology, defining standards,
> providing accessibility and related topics
>
>
>
> Separately, if you and your members are more interested in the
> publisher/author relationship and navigating that industry, I can put a
> request out to one of our member publishing houses.   Just give me a better
> sense of what you all are seeking.
>
>
>
> **Second Email:
>
>
>
> Our head of government affairs, Allan Adler, will be happy to be guest
> speaker for the 26th .  I'm thinking he should talk mainly about how
> content
> creators such as authors and publishers protect copyright.  Of every issue
> that's out there, this is the most important to any writer.  But I think
> I'll put you two together tomorrow by phone and you can work out details.
>
>
>
> And thanks for the offer about assistance to us on disability issues, which
> we will definitely call on at some point.  We've been working on two big
> projects relating to readers who are blind or have other visual
> disabilities
> - one is AccessText Network, founded by our members and aimed at enabling
> college students to easily get course materials in usable formats, and the
> other is a universal digital format platform that will let any reader have
> access to any book in any format.  I don't know much about the latter but
> Allan can explain.
>
>
>
> **Back to me and this notice of our February Telephone Gathering. As we get
> closer I'll remind you all of the date, time and numbers to call in on.
> Until then --- Don't forget we have a writing contest going on! Here is an
> opportunity to showcase some of your work. Yes, submitting to a contest is
> a
> risk --- submitting for publishing is also a risk that you need to get
> smart
> and comfortable with.
>
>
>
>
>
> Respectfully
>
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
>
> Personall Website-
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> Adjustmen To Blindness And Visual impairment
>
> http//www.thoughtprovoker.info
>
> NFB Writers' Division, president
>
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.net
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>
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