Prince of los cocuyos a miami childhood comes out in the fall of 2014. Youre watching booktv on cspan2s, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] next from Bookexpo America Panel Discussion on how technology is affecting publishing content. Bookexpo america is an annual trade show for the Publishing Industry thats features authors events educational panels and information on soontobe published books. This is a little under an hour. [inaudible conversations] thank you all for attending the media is the message. Really appreciate your coming here today and i think youre going to have a great panel that is going to give you some really interesting information about what is going on in our increasingly multimedia world. We are going to start off with. Or Adeena Karasick from Fordham University who is going to be present in a a powerpoint multimedia with vide. Its quite an amazing creation. And adeena is a great expert at putting it together so i will introduce her and we w
Some comments by fellow senior fellow here at the humphrey school, art rolnick, and then some questions from you and some answers from dr. Steurle. See Eugene Steuerle is a richard b. Fisher chair and institute fell at the urban institute, and the colonists for the government we deserve. He has served as Deputy Assistant secretary of the treasury for tax analysis, president of the National Tax Association cochair of the 1999 Technical Panel advising Social Security and its methods and assumptions, economic coordinator and National Organizer of the 1984 treasury study that led to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 your present of the National Economics club, educational foundation, resident fellow at the American Enterprise institute, federal executive bill at the brookings institutiinstituti on, and a columnist for financial times. Dr. Stone is the author, coauthor and coeditor of 15 books and over 1000 articles breeze and congressional testimony. His own most recent book, dead men ruling, whi
He only had that realization 20 years earlier it would have reshaped what became a nuclear arms locally. At the time i think he was just really unaware of the potentiality of Atomic Energy and dismissed it and kept saying im very happy with explosives we are to have. Lara heimert a lot of the conversation here at Bookexpo America this year is about ebooks still. Does basic have been approached to ebooks . Have they been helpful to your business . We love ebooks. We love it when people have more ways to read books and what we find is a lot of people toggle between the two. They dont become exclusive Ebook Readers and dont assert their bookshelves. I use my ereader when im traveling and its a wonderful technology. I think because we are exclusively nonfiction publisher we dont see the percentages of ebooks that you see at Mission House or other areas of publishing. Its a big chunk of our sales but nowhere near the majority of our sales. Look, do we want people to be reading. I dont worry
War. Booktv in prime time continues this week. Tonight after the communicators, well bring you authors from book fairs and festivals. At 8 30 p. M. Eastern, we begin with Oscar Goodman at freedom fest. He talks about being oscar from mob lawyer to mayor of las vegas. After that, well go to this years printers row Literary Festival to hear about the cooked seed. Then on to bookexpo be america in new york city city with erica jong who talks about fear of flying. And we finish with author and radio talk show host larry elder at the Los Angeles Times festival of books as he discusses his memoir about his troubled relationship with his father in dear father, dear son. Booktv in prime time all this week on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies in 1979, brought to you as a Public Service by your television provider. Host well, with the announcement this week that the Washington Post has been sold to jeff bethos, we thought wed take this opportunity to look at changes in the newsp
Work for . Im the Vice President , senior director of publicity at decap poe press which is part of the Perseus Books group. What kind of books do you publish . All nonfiction, primarily in the fieldses of history, military history, biography, and then we have a wellness in print as well. How was it founded . When was it founded . 50 years ago. In fact, thank you for asking, this is our 50th anniversary. Were proud to be around in a business thats a tough business these days. What are some of the titles . Youve got quite a few military history books coming out. Fall is a big military year for us. One im particularly fond of which crucible of command, and its written by william c. Davis, a preeminent historian in that area. He looks very much at their time in battle with each other, but also their personal lives and weaves it all together very nicely. We also have ooh book called [inaudible] by patrick k. Odonnell. Hes someone whos done many books for us. Ive worked on five or six books