[not verified in body] Patricia Schroeder, a former United States representative, served as the association's CEO from 1997 until 2009, taking over the role from Nicholas A. Veliotes.
[1][non-primary source needed] The association's core programs deal primarily with advocacy related to: intellectual property; new technology and digital issues of concern to publishers; the freedom to read, censorship and libel; the freedom to publish; funding for education and libraries; postal rates and regulations; tax and trade policy; and international copyright enforcement.
[3][non-primary source needed] In August 2019, AAP sued Audible for its Captions feature, through which machine-generated text could be displayed alongside audio narration.
‘We thought we were angels for a long time and we didn't need PR firms.’”[10] In 2020, AAP released press statements to support four of its members in the case of Hachette v. Internet Archive (IA).
President Maria Pallante said of the case, "As the complaint outlines, by illegally copying and distributing online a stunning number of literary works each day, IA displays an abandon shared only by the world’s most egregious pirate sites.