Unfortunately Tina Brown’s questions were as wispy as her voice at the CEOs panel at BEA on Thursday, with Brown suffering from laryngitis that led her to eventually leave the stage as her husband Harry Evans took her place. Evans produced a brief spark when he came on by declaring “the publishers seem to me to be extremely weak about Google” and asking about the pending legal settlement. Macmillan’s John Sargent underscored that “you shouldn’t focus on Google as the danger point; the danger is what Google enables in making a copy and giving it to libraries,” whose mission to […]