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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.