Communications / Public Affairs
The Communications and Public Affairs program is AAP's voice, informing the trade press and other media, the AAP membership, and the general public, about AAP's work to promote the cause of American publishing, and speaking for the industry on a host of issues. Through regular publications, press releases and advisories, op-ed pieces, and other means, AAP expresses the industry's views and provides up-to-the-minute information on subjects of concern to its members. Senior AAP staff address audiences nationwide and throughout the world, to insure the publishing industry's message is heard and understood.
AAP's public affairs activities include outreach and cooperative programs with such organizations as the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/loc/cfbook/ the Arts Advocacy Alliance (supporting the National Endowment for the Arts and other federal arts programs), PEN American Center and its International Freedom to Write program (www.pen.org) and many literacy and reading-promotion efforts including an early-childhood literacy initiative, Reach Out and Read (www.reachoutandread.org). The public affairs program also coordinates AAP's participation in the National Book Festival.