Transcripts For CSPAN2 Conversation With Mitchell Kaplan On

Walter isaacsons leonardo da vinci. I havent read it actually. We have t been selling it by the bushel. I havent read it, i cant keep it in stock for myself. Every time i take it home, we have to bring it back for another customer. As walter does, he struck a chord, what he has done with this book, he is going to open up, it is going to be educational tool for some people he dont know the story of leonardo. With a Walter Walter isaacso, he has a new book coming out, top pick, tbd, and would it sell . Thatct is beginning happen, yes, that is the case. People come so much to admire him. Are very few writers like that. Doris Kearns Goodwin is one. David mccullough, Walter Isaacson develop ad trust with will putionship they anything he puts out really. We checked out the bestsellers list prior to sitting down with you here, we discovered some of the books on theyre isaacsons da vinci. Grant by ron chernow. Chris matthews book on rfk is a bestseller. What y happened. Did you read what happened . Youre embarrassing me, i did not read,d, what happened. I didnt want to relive what happened personally. I kind of felt i knew what happened. But it is, honest, i read excerpts from it. It is an honest portrayal of her point of view in terms of what happened during the election. Cspan another b bestseller for books in books, Donna Braziles book, hacked. She was here couple nights ago. Cspan did you see her . I did. She was in conversation with ana navarro. That was quite cspan who was an Obama Administration official, right . No. Ana navarro is a republican. Ana navarro is on cnn she is antitrump cnn reporter, not a reporter, but a commentator. Very outspoken. They became friend on the set of cnn and, you know, it clearly donna is telling her side of the story and she has a lot of, a lot of raw emotion that is still there. Cspan the book is pretty raw. No, it is. It is. Cspan lays it right out there. She feels, rightfully so she should be able to tell her story asisis s it. There is pushback. People say not exactly the way i saw it. That is why books are written to create theia dialogue in the ton square. Cspan now if you watched our coverage in the past years from miami, you have met mitch kaplan over the years as founder, cofounder of miami book fair, owner of books in books but last couple years we kind of taken him. Tage of we invited him on to talk about books, and what hes reading and whats selling. But what makes this segment so much fun for us, when you call in, talk about the books that youre reading, why youre reading them, et cetera, et cetera. Numbers are up on the screen. Go ahead, dial in, we want to hear from you. 202 is the air code. 748200 for east and central time zones. 7488201, for those in the pacific and Mountain Time zones. Suite get to the calls in a few minutes. Were asking our viewers but, mitch kaplan, what are you reading . A number of books resonated with me recently. Some ive gone back to read. There is marvelous novel i read called, exitst west. Exit westells the story of immigrants basically. It is a novel about a young man and a young woman who have to fleeee the middle east and, theyre educated and there is a very interesting technique used in the novel where you go through doors. Instead of going on the road with travel, you go through, you find the door, a magic door. You end up out of your country and you may be in london. You might be in australia. You find out what happened in those countries, to an immigrant. So in essence youre getting 360degree kind of view of immigration and all of these Different Countries as well. Really, really welldone. Cspan that is hahm mead . Yes. His previous book was called the reluctant fundamentalist. It was really, really well done. Cspan reeses dontka. She is one of miamis treasured possessions. She writes fiction and memoir. This is little it about both. Not fiction, but a little bit of Literary History as well as memoirs. Takes off, called the art of death. She takes, published by gray wolf. She takes off from the point where a her mother got very, very sick and, ended up dying. She writes about her own personal experience with death. But also death in literature. She takes you through some of the greatest scenes of people dying in literature at same time. Very slim book but it is something thats really is very cspan yeah, part of this, the art of series. What is that . No exactly. This is a series gray wolf does. It is art of a number of different things, and the art of death is the most recent installation. Cspan neil postman, amusing ourselves to death. Neil postman, every person in the media ought to be reading that now. That is a book that i read back when i was a young book seller which was many, many years ago and the subtitle is, serious discourse in the age of showbusiness. That subtitle itself tells you what the book is about but he wrote that book almost 30 years ago, when he was really, he was decrying the fact there was a cnn that was diluting the serious discourse. If he were only alive now, he would have his head spinning basically. And i just feel that i needed to revisit to begin to understand a little bit more about whats happening in the media today given our political climate. Cspan mitch kaplan, the fact that you live in the area, and youre at your bookstore every day, does that make a difference what you stock and what you oh, sure. Were a general bookstore. Were not, we believe, we believe, i always believed, in independent booksellers anywhere around the country what they do is they serve their communities. So what we try to do is make sure that were carrying books that reflect the interests of our community. There isnt a book we wouldnt carry and we have books in spanish. We have books in french for the creole community. We have lots of different kind of books that are there. But we do have specialize in things that were our specialties from the beginning. Art books, design books, photography books, because at the time we opened in 1982 before the internet, you couldnt find those books anywhere. You couldnt just look them up and google something. So people would come into our store to look see what the latest architecture book was or art book, that sort of thing. Cspan now you said this before on the air but jeb bush is one of your regular customers . Jeb bush was one of our early customers before he moved to tallahassee. He is awfully nice guy. In fact one of his, either his chief of staff or someone very close to him just opened a bookstore in tallahassee actually, a marvlous bookstore in tallahassee. Comes from a very bookish family. One of our early guests at the book fair was barbara bush. Certainly laura bush has gone on to do some great things with the National Book festival, texas book fair, all of that. Cspan and the bush sisters, the bush daughters were here this week. Here v earlier. Very charming. Cspan writing about their life. Their interplay you can tell, i have twins and i hope my twins will be as close as they are. My twins are fraternal as well. Cspan mitch kaplan, with the National Conversation and, issue that were having with Sexual Assault or sexual, you know, however you want to phrase it, doesdo that reflect in sales ata bookstore necessarily . Well, you know, it happens so quickly in terms of the way it exploded into our consciousness, that, i think that there will be bookss written, that we havent seen yet, that will help explore probably a little bit more, just about what has gone on. Certainly there have been books that have been written about, that sort of thing. There have been memoirs and otherr sorts of things, but this moment of time seems so unique to me, you know, in my life, that it seems like there is a sea change going on. I think the book yet to be written at that really captures that is. It doesnt depress book sales but i just dont know that there is that kind of seminal book yet about all of this that has been written. Cspan lets hear from our viewers. S lets begin with vincent calling in from orange county, california in irvine. Vincent, youre on booktv with mitch kaplan. Caller hi, peter. I used to love cspan but seems to me cspan has really drifted very far to the left. Your guest is obviously a man of the left but even programing rarely do i see programs coming from the right on cspan. Seems like virtually every guest now on cspan is person of the left and very disappointing. It is really, really love cspan because its evenhandedness. I got to d see you. Cspan i appreciate that, vincent. Tell us what youre reading. Caller what imre reading . Im reading a new book called, american ulysses about u. S. Grant and his life. And it is very, very good. Cspan is that robert marys new book, been a couple grants book. Caller i knew you were going to ask me, but i cant remember who the author is, about u. S. Grant and basically takes you through his whole life growing up in ohio. Cspan vincent, thank you for your comments. Thank you for sharing that book with us. Mitchh kaplan, there has been a couple of books out on ulysses s. Grant. One were selling a lot of, ron chernows book, he is another one like walter, ron chernow cspan put his name and topic tbd . People want to read anything ron writes, because he is such a good writer. That is really veryar heartening that readers really do respond to really good writing, particularly when they are learning something at same time. Its is like perfect storm. If you got to really fine writer, chosen really interesting topic and maybe it is topic that people dont know a lot about. It is guaranteed to be something that would be a big seller. I just want to defend cspan a little bit. I watched cspan booktv all the time, and i can say that you guys have done a very, very good job of presenting people from all spectrums. In fact the other night i remember watching anniversary of the regery, certainly there is no more publisher from the right is regnery. It depend when you watch, watch it periodically and just happen to be unlucky get one particular perspective. I know you guys work very hard to have a very broad spectrum. That is what we love about, what i love about cspan booktv. Cspan do you sell titles by regery in your bookstore. Of course. Of course. Cspan do they sell in coral gables. Moderately. I have to admit a south florida is blue part of the state, even though the state went red, south florida is a fairly liberal place. We do carry them, when one hit as chord people will buy. Cspan scott from westminster, california. Scott, thanks for holding. What are you reading . I dont think we have scott. So were going to have to say goodbye. Lets try julia in shawnee, oklahoma. Julia, good afternoon. Caller good afternoon. I want to tell you cspan what are you reading . Caller im reading a book that, well, i just got it yesterday and the title is, dare fahrenheit 4 a 1. Library love letters, breakup notes by annie spence. Im a retired librarian. This one is of interest to me. Here is a short sample. Dear gray, from 50 shades of gray, you a madee sayre rot tick can to a. Hate you forever for that. That is librarians lament. Im also reading pillars of the flower moon, the osage murders and birth of the fbi by david grand. That set in osage county, oklahoma, which is close to way i live. Very interested in this one. David graham is at the fair now actually. Cspan that was National Book award finalist. It was indeed. He also writes remarkable nonfiction. Cspan before,e, do we still hae julia on the line. Are you still there . Caller yes. Yes, im here. Cspan tell us about, tell us about your career as librarian. Also where do you get your books from . Do you do w it online or go to a bookstore . Caller i was a a public librarian for 30 years. I was a small branch manager, a large branch manager. I have always was in an area called the center for Readers Services and we did the selection of the books that were purchased for our library system. And i get my books from all different places. I, of course use the library. I buy from independent bookstores when i, can, and bos my friends are interested in doing a book tour, going to as many as we can across the country. Whenever im out and about, i make it a point, if i am in a place where there is an independent bookstore i try to stop there. Cspan thank you, maam. Come on down. We would love to have you. Come visit the book fair, one year, you would love it. Cspan go to books and books in coral gables ask for mitch kaplan. Can she have a cup of split pea soup . Absolutely. Absolutely. Thats a deal. Cspan josh inn new york. Good afternoon. Caller howl are you doing, peter . Cspan im well. What are you reading . Caller im reading what happened by hillary clinton. She is one of the most charismatic figures i have ever seen. It is interesting book. I know a lot of people reviewss on it. Im halfway through, i was offended there is not enough pictures. I have a question for mitch. I was curious to know what your thoughts were on the digital books as opposed to like paper books with kindle . I like feel of paper books a lot better. I go down to the bookstore and library. They are getting to be fewer and far between. It is difficult. I didnt know, you to me it is just a different, it is a different mode. I never had a problem dropping, the kindle i dropped in the bathtub. Never dropped a book in the bathtub before. Thats right. Caller or anything. Just curious to know what your thoughts were onn that . Well i feel as you do. I think that the book, the book is a perfect entity. It is perfect for what it is. When you bring on a new technology you have to ask yourself what problem is that new technology solving . And i think, you cant, the book is so good that you dont need a new technology to take its place. What is actually happening is, the idea of the electronic book has actually been losing some steam. So in the last couple of years electronic book sales have gone down. I like you, im very old school, very analog. I love the feel of a book. I love to look at the beautiful object of a book. You know when i read on a screen it is too much like work. So i really, when i, when i can just sit there with a book i feel like i can finally take a deep breath and know that im going to enter a new world. So, as long as im around well be selling books. Believe it or not on our website you can buy electronic books. But it is not something we have a lot of takers on. Still the book is. The book is paramount in our stores. Cspan did ebooks hurt your sales . I think originally they did. I think originally ebooks did. Now what is happening is be publishers dont b have that sae kind of revenue that they had from ebooks. So it is hurting them as well. Very similar to in film when happened with similar in film what happened to the dvd, lack of a dvd the film studio could sell the dvb after the film came out but that doesnt happen as much anymore. Cspan peter in corona, new york. What are youk. Reading . Caller thanks for taking tha call. At the present im reading principles and bankers empire by Professor James hudson. Cspan you seem to be on an agenda with those two books. What is it . Caller repeat the question, please . Cspan you seem to have an agenda or purpose with those two books. What is it . Caller well, i dont know, i dont know if i have an agend, i just curious and always followed mr. Dalio. I like what he has done with his hedge fund and you know, some of the principles that he espouses are very, very strong and with bankers, i am from the caribbean originally. So he on wall street called night of the caribbean. That is very, thats been my focus in terms of reading the second book. The first book is just because im just curious about you know how mr. Dalio developed his hedge fund and type of techniques that he has used. Cspan i think we have talked to the author of that second book here on booktv. This is a little bit of a stretch, do Business Books do well, Mitch Company plan . They do, actually. It is people like the caller who fuel that. You know, people are looking for books which they can learn something about how somebody achieved something. Someone writing about his Successful Hedge Fund is right up the alley of a lot of people. We have books on buying real estate that do well. You know, that sort of thing. So,l yes, people are looking for aspirational kinds of books where they learn something and maybe move their own lives forward too. David as weewn continue to take calls, roger is in colorado springs. Roger, on booktv from miami. Tell us what youre reading. Hi im reading a book called, auschwitz, number 34027, the knowit rubenstein story. Cspan why did you pick that up . Well, i was a fellow presenter at history Camp Colorado of a couple of months ago and. Nancy geese was the presenter and it is a wonderful story about this gentleman that is, survived that camp and then three others, and then came back to colorado, and is still alive and i t guess one of the most wonderful men that you ever want to meet. Cspan once again, what was his name, roger . Caller it is joe rubenstein. Cspan thank you very much. Isnt it lovely and wonderful at variety of interests people have . I mean it is pretty amazing. Im a hearing about books that i dont really know very much about. We sell hundreds of thousands of books, but the variety of interests. There are over a couple hundred thousand books publishing every year. No one bookstore can carry all of them. That is the beauty and democracy of selling books through a lot of different independent stores because each store will have its own sensibility and hearing all of your callers, im just thrilled that there is just such a variety of interests. Cspan when you book in selfpub books it goes over to one million. Oh cspan has anyone brought a selfpub book to you, selfpublished y book, i want to put that in my bookstore . We published a book that was selfpublished. It was marvelous book called the book lovers guyed to wine. Written by someone in miami. He write it. Mitch, i written this book. We have a press, book to book press connected to mango media. Thats is phenomenal. It is getting this very serious review. Er Timeout New York called it one of the best gift books for christmas, the book lovers guide to wine. Amazing book. Funny. If youre a book lover he pairs prust to certain wines you should be drinking while reading prust. Cspan you publish books, you find books at book festivals, you also do something else. Io . Am doing movies now. I have a production company, mazer kaplan company. My partner is paula mazer. Cspan i am cheap enough to take them. Thism is movie tiein editin written byless stand ford. Cspan historian. Creator writing at fiu. It is orrery fin story of Walter Walter<\/a> isaacso, he has a new book coming out, top pick, tbd, and would it sell . Thatct is beginning happen, yes, that is the case. People come so much to admire him. Are very few writers like that. Doris Kearns Goodwin<\/a> is one. David mccullough, Walter Isaacson<\/a> develop ad trust with will putionship they anything he puts out really. We checked out the bestsellers list prior to sitting down with you here, we discovered some of the books on theyre isaacsons da vinci. Grant by ron chernow. Chris matthews book on rfk is a bestseller. What y happened. Did you read what happened . Youre embarrassing me, i did not read,d, what happened. I didnt want to relive what happened personally. I kind of felt i knew what happened. But it is, honest, i read excerpts from it. It is an honest portrayal of her point of view in terms of what happened during the election. Cspan another b bestseller for books in books, Donna Braziles<\/a> book, hacked. She was here couple nights ago. Cspan did you see her . I did. She was in conversation with ana navarro. That was quite cspan who was an Obama Administration<\/a> official, right . No. Ana navarro is a republican. Ana navarro is on cnn she is antitrump cnn reporter, not a reporter, but a commentator. Very outspoken. They became friend on the set of cnn and, you know, it clearly donna is telling her side of the story and she has a lot of, a lot of raw emotion that is still there. Cspan the book is pretty raw. No, it is. It is. Cspan lays it right out there. She feels, rightfully so she should be able to tell her story asisis s it. There is pushback. People say not exactly the way i saw it. That is why books are written to create theia dialogue in the ton square. Cspan now if you watched our coverage in the past years from miami, you have met mitch kaplan over the years as founder, cofounder of miami book fair, owner of books in books but last couple years we kind of taken him. Tage of we invited him on to talk about books, and what hes reading and whats selling. But what makes this segment so much fun for us, when you call in, talk about the books that youre reading, why youre reading them, et cetera, et cetera. Numbers are up on the screen. Go ahead, dial in, we want to hear from you. 202 is the air code. 748200 for east and central time zones. 7488201, for those in the pacific and Mountain Time<\/a> zones. Suite get to the calls in a few minutes. Were asking our viewers but, mitch kaplan, what are you reading . A number of books resonated with me recently. Some ive gone back to read. There is marvelous novel i read called, exitst west. Exit westells the story of immigrants basically. It is a novel about a young man and a young woman who have to fleeee the middle east and, theyre educated and there is a very interesting technique used in the novel where you go through doors. Instead of going on the road with travel, you go through, you find the door, a magic door. You end up out of your country and you may be in london. You might be in australia. You find out what happened in those countries, to an immigrant. So in essence youre getting 360degree kind of view of immigration and all of these Different Countries<\/a> as well. Really, really welldone. Cspan that is hahm mead . Yes. His previous book was called the reluctant fundamentalist. It was really, really well done. Cspan reeses dontka. She is one of miamis treasured possessions. She writes fiction and memoir. This is little it about both. Not fiction, but a little bit of Literary History<\/a> as well as memoirs. Takes off, called the art of death. She takes, published by gray wolf. She takes off from the point where a her mother got very, very sick and, ended up dying. She writes about her own personal experience with death. But also death in literature. She takes you through some of the greatest scenes of people dying in literature at same time. Very slim book but it is something thats really is very cspan yeah, part of this, the art of series. What is that . No exactly. This is a series gray wolf does. It is art of a number of different things, and the art of death is the most recent installation. Cspan neil postman, amusing ourselves to death. Neil postman, every person in the media ought to be reading that now. That is a book that i read back when i was a young book seller which was many, many years ago and the subtitle is, serious discourse in the age of showbusiness. That subtitle itself tells you what the book is about but he wrote that book almost 30 years ago, when he was really, he was decrying the fact there was a cnn that was diluting the serious discourse. If he were only alive now, he would have his head spinning basically. And i just feel that i needed to revisit to begin to understand a little bit more about whats happening in the media today given our political climate. Cspan mitch kaplan, the fact that you live in the area, and youre at your bookstore every day, does that make a difference what you stock and what you oh, sure. Were a general bookstore. Were not, we believe, we believe, i always believed, in independent booksellers anywhere around the country what they do is they serve their communities. So what we try to do is make sure that were carrying books that reflect the interests of our community. There isnt a book we wouldnt carry and we have books in spanish. We have books in french for the creole community. We have lots of different kind of books that are there. But we do have specialize in things that were our specialties from the beginning. Art books, design books, photography books, because at the time we opened in 1982 before the internet, you couldnt find those books anywhere. You couldnt just look them up and google something. So people would come into our store to look see what the latest architecture book was or art book, that sort of thing. Cspan now you said this before on the air but jeb bush is one of your regular customers . Jeb bush was one of our early customers before he moved to tallahassee. He is awfully nice guy. In fact one of his, either his chief of staff or someone very close to him just opened a bookstore in tallahassee actually, a marvlous bookstore in tallahassee. Comes from a very bookish family. One of our early guests at the book fair was barbara bush. Certainly laura bush has gone on to do some great things with the National Book<\/a> festival, texas book fair, all of that. Cspan and the bush sisters, the bush daughters were here this week. Here v earlier. Very charming. Cspan writing about their life. Their interplay you can tell, i have twins and i hope my twins will be as close as they are. My twins are fraternal as well. Cspan mitch kaplan, with the National Conversation<\/a> and, issue that were having with Sexual Assault<\/a> or sexual, you know, however you want to phrase it, doesdo that reflect in sales ata bookstore necessarily . Well, you know, it happens so quickly in terms of the way it exploded into our consciousness, that, i think that there will be bookss written, that we havent seen yet, that will help explore probably a little bit more, just about what has gone on. Certainly there have been books that have been written about, that sort of thing. There have been memoirs and otherr sorts of things, but this moment of time seems so unique to me, you know, in my life, that it seems like there is a sea change going on. I think the book yet to be written at that really captures that is. It doesnt depress book sales but i just dont know that there is that kind of seminal book yet about all of this that has been written. Cspan lets hear from our viewers. S lets begin with vincent calling in from orange county, california in irvine. Vincent, youre on booktv with mitch kaplan. Caller hi, peter. I used to love cspan but seems to me cspan has really drifted very far to the left. Your guest is obviously a man of the left but even programing rarely do i see programs coming from the right on cspan. Seems like virtually every guest now on cspan is person of the left and very disappointing. It is really, really love cspan because its evenhandedness. I got to d see you. Cspan i appreciate that, vincent. Tell us what youre reading. Caller what imre reading . Im reading a new book called, american ulysses about u. S. Grant and his life. And it is very, very good. Cspan is that robert marys new book, been a couple grants book. Caller i knew you were going to ask me, but i cant remember who the author is, about u. S. Grant and basically takes you through his whole life growing up in ohio. Cspan vincent, thank you for your comments. Thank you for sharing that book with us. Mitchh kaplan, there has been a couple of books out on ulysses s. Grant. One were selling a lot of, ron chernows book, he is another one like walter, ron chernow cspan put his name and topic tbd . People want to read anything ron writes, because he is such a good writer. That is really veryar heartening that readers really do respond to really good writing, particularly when they are learning something at same time. Its is like perfect storm. If you got to really fine writer, chosen really interesting topic and maybe it is topic that people dont know a lot about. It is guaranteed to be something that would be a big seller. I just want to defend cspan a little bit. I watched cspan booktv all the time, and i can say that you guys have done a very, very good job of presenting people from all spectrums. In fact the other night i remember watching anniversary of the regery, certainly there is no more publisher from the right is regnery. It depend when you watch, watch it periodically and just happen to be unlucky get one particular perspective. I know you guys work very hard to have a very broad spectrum. That is what we love about, what i love about cspan booktv. Cspan do you sell titles by regery in your bookstore. Of course. Of course. Cspan do they sell in coral gables. Moderately. I have to admit a south florida is blue part of the state, even though the state went red, south florida is a fairly liberal place. We do carry them, when one hit as chord people will buy. Cspan scott from westminster, california. Scott, thanks for holding. What are you reading . I dont think we have scott. So were going to have to say goodbye. Lets try julia in shawnee, oklahoma. Julia, good afternoon. Caller good afternoon. I want to tell you cspan what are you reading . Caller im reading a book that, well, i just got it yesterday and the title is, dare fahrenheit 4 a 1. Library love letters, breakup notes by annie spence. Im a retired librarian. This one is of interest to me. Here is a short sample. Dear gray, from 50 shades of gray, you a madee sayre rot tick can to a. Hate you forever for that. That is librarians lament. Im also reading pillars of the flower moon, the osage murders and birth of the fbi by david grand. That set in osage county, oklahoma, which is close to way i live. Very interested in this one. David graham is at the fair now actually. Cspan that was National Book<\/a> award finalist. It was indeed. He also writes remarkable nonfiction. Cspan before,e, do we still hae julia on the line. Are you still there . Caller yes. Yes, im here. Cspan tell us about, tell us about your career as librarian. Also where do you get your books from . Do you do w it online or go to a bookstore . Caller i was a a public librarian for 30 years. I was a small branch manager, a large branch manager. I have always was in an area called the center for Readers Services<\/a> and we did the selection of the books that were purchased for our library system. And i get my books from all different places. I, of course use the library. I buy from independent bookstores when i, can, and bos my friends are interested in doing a book tour, going to as many as we can across the country. Whenever im out and about, i make it a point, if i am in a place where there is an independent bookstore i try to stop there. Cspan thank you, maam. Come on down. We would love to have you. Come visit the book fair, one year, you would love it. Cspan go to books and books in coral gables ask for mitch kaplan. Can she have a cup of split pea soup . Absolutely. Absolutely. Thats a deal. Cspan josh inn new york. Good afternoon. Caller howl are you doing, peter . Cspan im well. What are you reading . Caller im reading what happened by hillary clinton. She is one of the most charismatic figures i have ever seen. It is interesting book. I know a lot of people reviewss on it. Im halfway through, i was offended there is not enough pictures. I have a question for mitch. I was curious to know what your thoughts were on the digital books as opposed to like paper books with kindle . I like feel of paper books a lot better. I go down to the bookstore and library. They are getting to be fewer and far between. It is difficult. I didnt know, you to me it is just a different, it is a different mode. I never had a problem dropping, the kindle i dropped in the bathtub. Never dropped a book in the bathtub before. Thats right. Caller or anything. Just curious to know what your thoughts were onn that . Well i feel as you do. I think that the book, the book is a perfect entity. It is perfect for what it is. When you bring on a new technology you have to ask yourself what problem is that new technology solving . And i think, you cant, the book is so good that you dont need a new technology to take its place. What is actually happening is, the idea of the electronic book has actually been losing some steam. So in the last couple of years electronic book sales have gone down. I like you, im very old school, very analog. I love the feel of a book. I love to look at the beautiful object of a book. You know when i read on a screen it is too much like work. So i really, when i, when i can just sit there with a book i feel like i can finally take a deep breath and know that im going to enter a new world. So, as long as im around well be selling books. Believe it or not on our website you can buy electronic books. But it is not something we have a lot of takers on. Still the book is. The book is paramount in our stores. Cspan did ebooks hurt your sales . I think originally they did. I think originally ebooks did. Now what is happening is be publishers dont b have that sae kind of revenue that they had from ebooks. So it is hurting them as well. Very similar to in film when happened with similar in film what happened to the dvd, lack of a dvd the film studio could sell the dvb after the film came out but that doesnt happen as much anymore. Cspan peter in corona, new york. What are youk. Reading . Caller thanks for taking tha call. At the present im reading principles and bankers empire by Professor James<\/a> hudson. Cspan you seem to be on an agenda with those two books. What is it . Caller repeat the question, please . Cspan you seem to have an agenda or purpose with those two books. What is it . Caller well, i dont know, i dont know if i have an agend, i just curious and always followed mr. Dalio. I like what he has done with his hedge fund and you know, some of the principles that he espouses are very, very strong and with bankers, i am from the caribbean originally. So he on wall street called night of the caribbean. That is very, thats been my focus in terms of reading the second book. The first book is just because im just curious about you know how mr. Dalio developed his hedge fund and type of techniques that he has used. Cspan i think we have talked to the author of that second book here on booktv. This is a little bit of a stretch, do Business Books<\/a> do well, Mitch Company<\/a> plan . They do, actually. It is people like the caller who fuel that. You know, people are looking for books which they can learn something about how somebody achieved something. Someone writing about his Successful Hedge Fund<\/a> is right up the alley of a lot of people. We have books on buying real estate that do well. You know, that sort of thing. So,l yes, people are looking for aspirational kinds of books where they learn something and maybe move their own lives forward too. David as weewn continue to take calls, roger is in colorado springs. Roger, on booktv from miami. Tell us what youre reading. Hi im reading a book called, auschwitz, number 34027, the knowit rubenstein story. Cspan why did you pick that up . Well, i was a fellow presenter at history Camp Colorado<\/a> of a couple of months ago and. Nancy geese was the presenter and it is a wonderful story about this gentleman that is, survived that camp and then three others, and then came back to colorado, and is still alive and i t guess one of the most wonderful men that you ever want to meet. Cspan once again, what was his name, roger . Caller it is joe rubenstein. Cspan thank you very much. Isnt it lovely and wonderful at variety of interests people have . I mean it is pretty amazing. Im a hearing about books that i dont really know very much about. We sell hundreds of thousands of books, but the variety of interests. There are over a couple hundred thousand books publishing every year. No one bookstore can carry all of them. That is the beauty and democracy of selling books through a lot of different independent stores because each store will have its own sensibility and hearing all of your callers, im just thrilled that there is just such a variety of interests. Cspan when you book in selfpub books it goes over to one million. Oh cspan has anyone brought a selfpub book to you, selfpublished y book, i want to put that in my bookstore . We published a book that was selfpublished. It was marvelous book called the book lovers guyed to wine. Written by someone in miami. He write it. Mitch, i written this book. We have a press, book to book press connected to mango media. Thats is phenomenal. It is getting this very serious review. Er Timeout New York<\/a> called it one of the best gift books for christmas, the book lovers guide to wine. Amazing book. Funny. If youre a book lover he pairs prust to certain wines you should be drinking while reading prust. Cspan you publish books, you find books at book festivals, you also do something else. Io . Am doing movies now. I have a production company, mazer kaplan company. My partner is paula mazer. Cspan i am cheap enough to take them. Thism is movie tiein editin written byless stand ford. Cspan historian. Creator writing at fiu. It is orrery fin story of Christmas Carol<\/a> written by Charles Dickens<\/a> of course. So what happens in this book, the film is directed by barrett aluri. Barrett and the screenwriter susan coin created a Wonderful World<\/a> in which you see dickics writing a Christmas Carol<\/a>. He had six weeks to do it. He funded himself. He had financial issues. He knew he had to get this thing done. The pressure was on him. As he develops the characters and writes about them, they become alive to him so christopher columbus, i mean, christopher columbus, Christopher Plummer<\/a> appears as soon as he discovers he will write about scrooge. So there is this wonderful, funny interplay between scrooge and dickens. So i have brought you a tshirt. There is a line in the film that i have loved, it is the line is cspan hold it up to my camera. You can read it. The line is no one is use less in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Which talks all about generosity, generosity of spirit, pulling people up, helping people all of those things that we need today in our climate that is going on where we seem so at odds with one another. So i made a pin and i have a bumper strip, biggest bumper strip in the world. The movie, the movie, the film is coming out in theaters across the country, 500 theaters across the country and it will be out on november 22nd, in theater near you. Cspan the man who invented christmas, produced by mitch kaplan. A bunch of other people including paula mazer and Robert Nicole<\/a> son and bunch of others. Cspan carrie, riverside, california, please tell us what youre reading. Caller im enjoying this so much. I wish, the book is, the forgotten room. It is a historical novel which has three authors make it interesting, karen white, beat trees lauren wilig. I just love this book. Cspan it is historical fiction you said, right . Caller yes. Took you threetime periods, one of which is world war ii. And it is sort of a family intertwins. It is a mystery too. You dont find out to the end what is really happening. Does it actually take place during the war . Well, kind of. Part of it does. Like i said, it is three different time periods. It is like before the war, during the war and after. That is fascinating. Thank you for sharing that. Caller couldnt put it down. Okay. Cspan carrie, in riverside, california. We appreciate hearing from you. We want to hear from you what books youre reading. 2027488201 for those of you in the mountain and pacific time zones. Mitch kaplan, historical fiction. I am going to my goto which is follet and his history. We have architecture books, talk about building of churches, all of that. That spurred all kinds of interest in what we do. I found architects coming in and buying it. He, i mean it is kind of remarkable the fact that he was able to do what he did with that trilogy. T hillary mantle as well, historical fiction is just, when it is welldone youre just transported back. Cspan National Book<\/a> awards recently, gesen, nonfiction and jess minute ward for fiction. When that happens do you see up tick in interest in those books . I do. Very much so. The difference between those two winners, both of them were selling really, really well before they won. This just added another little supercharge to it all but theyre both fine, fine, remarkable books. Cspan als always we appreciate you coming over and chatting, talking with our viewers and talking books and movies this year. Mitch kaplan. Thanks for being here. Keep up what you do. It is just keeping books alive. 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