Some ople asking if amazon is a monopoly. The question for the democracy is, are we okay with one company essentially winning capitali . How do you and jeff think about the call to break you guys up . Simply because the companys beenes suul doesnt mean its somehow too big. Narrator now on frontline. Domination was very much the idea. Narrator amazon empire. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. And by the corporationor public broadcasting. Major support is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. T and Ford Foundation working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. Additional support is provided by the abrams foundation, committed to excellence in journalism. The park foundation, dedicated to heighteublic awareness of critical issues. The john and helen glener family trust. Supporting trustworthy journalism that informs
And if they have any ideas i can still. Speaking today with the team, the brain trust behind the industries leading trade magazine for in the books, publishers and particularly bookstores, selfawareness, jenn risko the cofounder and publisher, john mutter the other cofounder and editorinchief, and bob gray an editor and columnist for shelf. You no doubt read his columns. He is basically a bookstore correspondent, wandering bookstore correspondent making you feel like you are in america is great in the bookstores and seeing whats really going on from the inside. Welcome, guys, its really an honor and pleasure to see you all. You all looking basically the same from last time i saw you with i think was with institute. January. Yes. Seems like a lifetime ago, doesnt it . Its good to see everybody. I have to say, shelf to me seems to have become even more important obligation then it was before. Really kind of a lifeline for indie booksellers in particular to see whos making it, how they ar
Im Dennis Johnson from Melville House. Dont know what day of lockdown were in new york city. My stoop is as far as im willing to go from my apartment but die know by machines is still closed and so is a hell of a lot of the independent Book Business so im still calling up friends and trying to find out how to do it and if they have any idea is can steal. Okay, speaking today with the team, the brain trust behind the industrys leading trade magazine for indy books, publishers, and particularly book stores, shelf awareness, and they are jen sko, john mutter, the awe cofounder and he is the editor and chief, and bob gray an editor and columnist for shelf. He is basically a back store correspondent, a wandering book store correspondent. Its an honor and pleasure to see you the last since january. Seems like a lifetime ago. But its good to see everybody and i have to say, just to me seems to have become even more important publication than it was before. Really have kind of a lifeline for i
No right. Whats your sense of whats driving this in the Mainstream Media that you are part of . First of all theres a bias against republicans in general. With reagan he is portrayed as stupid or dangerous, the same thing with trump, hes stupid and dangerous according to the media. They feel if they did there would be ostracized by the colleagues. For example, from for people wn the white house correspondents, cobol, among themselves they laugh at him, they mock him. That is the overriding theme. Many people just inherently cant think independently. Thats one reason i left college after two years like a few of the people, michael dell and gates. I did want to be told how to think. I did want to be told what to write. I wanted to get firsthand what actually happened and thats the way ive operated. I dont have blinders on. I like to penetrate secrets and thats what ive done in this book with all these details about the real donald. Its really a fun read. Explain what happened with Reince
In speaking with two of the leading lights of the english book world, two of my neighbors in brooklyn. One is johnny campbell, the other is jessica the noodle of the green light bookstore in my neighborhood bookstore. Welcome to both of you and thank you for taking the time to speak. I want to talk shop with you guys give people inside baseball about our new lives as independent book people. We will start with you jessica. What has this doneto your business . It a lot really fast, right west and mark its been a real reinvention over the past six or eight weeks. Midmarch there were a couple of days where we were like we need to consider closing . Suddenly it was like yes, you absolutely have to and you also need to send everyone home and in that week of transition, i think march 21 we close the doors and walked away from the bookstores that was terrifying because we didnt know what was going to happen next. I feel like we were in a fortunate position that weve already had a really welle