a number of discussions with authors and experts. on the hot topic is the future of the book publishing industry itself. facing stiff competition from e-books books and demand and self published money scripts there's been a prize for the best self published book since two thousand and seventeen last year monica from our won the prize for story. nobody wanted to publish it but now it's proving popular for bar says self publishing offers a number of advantages. to me says i'm in china as i speak and one major factor is the wide variety of topics that you can find in these kinds of books and that includes all sorts of marginal subjects that are just as important but don't appeal to the mainstream publishers emmy's in. life i don't know for example in my book i addressed the issue of sexual harassment. my ex and ability but i think it's extremely important to have a platform to initiate discussion doesn't it discuss you want. the logic fair