a revealing interview with publishing executives by michael
cader of publishers lunch (a great publication btw) at book
expo america -

http://peterbrantley.com/those-files-go-the-way-that-files-do-173

At Book Expo America’s conference in New York (May 29-30
2009), my colleague Michael Cader of Publishers Lunch
conducted an interview with publishing executives focused on
the Google Book Search (GBS) settlement:

“[A]t the invitation of the AAP and Google I moderated a panel
discussion with John Sargent from Macmillan and Richard
Sarnoff from Bertelsmann that had the … goal of illuminating
for publishers some of the basics of the proposed settlement
of the Google Book Search lawsuits.”

Both Sargent and Sarnoff were extensively involved in the
negotiations of the Google Book Search settlement, and the
interview is revealing for the attitudes of the large trade
publishers who negotiated the proposed agreement with Google.
The attitudes expressed toward libraries, e.g., while sadly
not atypical of NY publishers, are striking to those of us who
care about the public services that libraries provide.