Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and the executive director of aspen digital of the Aspen Institute program really glad you could be with us today. The York Times Bestseller list can often seem to be a near untimely or of the national psyche. As such this year seems to reflect a nation going through and awaking of matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction prayed that is the good news. Sadly, the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest has back publishing paid and exposed a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate as decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure coming sub optimal. This year, of National Reckoning on racism, we can take a look at the boo
Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be suboptimal. And this year of National Reckoning on racism, we are going to take a look at th
Green for much of the section and that is still the case. The russell 2000 is the big outperformer. The index now up for the past five straight days. And as for tech the nasdaq 100 on an intraday basis, alphabet hitting a new high. Take a look at the picture in yields. Just about everywhere you look on the curve today they are falling. Takes us to our talk of the tape. How much room for stocks to make a run into year end . Lauren goodwin of u. S. Life investments at post 9. Thats what some people are talking about. Were setting up for a run into the end of the year. Do you buy it or no . I think well see upside in equity. The challenge for investors when youre in this late cycle environment, its difficult to get meaningful sector or even style performance for more than a couple of days at a time. Well see what weve been seeing a range bound volatile market. We have not reached a recession or a bear mark yet. What if rates continue to move lower . Thats what this is largely about, right
Reporters is very difficult. Very briefly i wanted to ask a question, the ed snowden disclosure for National Security is one very small area journalists report all over the world, at minimum, companies, private firms outside the Intelligence Community they may not go to jail for disclosing this but they have a mortgage to pay and a family to feed. Worst Case Scenario journalists i am lucky to live in a country where the worst happens, not saying it is a walk in the park, i get held in contempt. We are talking people dying and disappearing if this information is made out of sources of ours to disappear in the middle of the night because the question i have we talk about lawyers, from a legal perspective is what the surveillance needs for Attorney Client privilege and when the government does ims surveillance, how that is protected and that might work. Depends on what mass surveillance you have in mind. That is a hard question to answer. On the journalism question there has been too much
People who pay for that service can have access to those numbers but its still one of those areas where its difficult to figure out exactly what is selling because books are sold in so many different ways not only on line but in conferences and in book sales as well as in bookstores. Host booktv is celebrating its 15th year this fall. How has the literary publishing world changed in the last 15 years . Guest its been completely transformed. I mean in the last 15, its like ancient history. Everything has changed on the number of publishing houses and it was the big six and now its just the combined five. The launch obviously if the readers and tablets and the internet has totally transformed not only where people are buying their books but how they are reading them, at the coverage obviously in the media and the print media has grown dramatically on dramatically down. At the same time we see arise of vibrant on Line Community of readers whether its on sites like good reads or book claus