You sort of have these multiple reinforcements of this process all the while opening cascading throughout the night. Again, thank you very much for coming out helping me to tell these stories. [applause] i am happy to sign books either to you or to any of your holiday gift recipients. Thank you very much for coming out tonight. [inaudible conversations] booktv is on facebook. Like this to get publishing news, schedule updates, behind the scenes pictures and figures. Author information and to talk directly with others during our live program. Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. Saturday january 24 is being called National Readathon day by a group. What is National Readathon they . So National Readathon day is a day in january coming at january 24, were all across america we are inviting readers to commit to spend the afternoon reading any books that they like and you can do it at home or in any of the many venues participant across the country which includes libraries and bookstores and schools. And why are you promoting it . Thats a wonderful large and complicated question but essentially our hope is to find different ways in the coming years to really foster a culture of reading in america and remind people of what the experience is like to sit and really dedicate a nice long swath of time to reading. We have feedback all the time that people read books less now because they feel they dont have time or they do in little snippets here and there but theres a real pleasure that comes from really getting lost in the world of a book that is to do if youre checking your phone every few minutes or on the go between different venues. We wanted to remember what that expense was like and get a little lost again in the world of books. So you are setting a timeframe for this for hours 12 noon to 4 p. M. On saturday afternoon spent exactly right. We agree to four hours was longer than any of us normally spend reading a book but not so onerous that it would be impossible for people with kids or jobs or other things going on that there will be no way that they could actually sit and do it. That was the agreed upon time is in reasonable amounts to ask everyone to try to set aside and and. Jynne martin, are the groups participating in that . We have a lot of different groups but everything from book clubs to localize for his in schools and on the readathon website there is a list state by state of different venues by cities that are participating. You can go there to see if a place near you is are producing and you can go join from noon to four states if someone wants to do this at home, how can they stay in contact with the larger group . Is there besides the website, is there a hash that . Yes, absolutely. Were using the timetoread remind people about why we make time to read important. You can search time to read on a negative of platforms you all receive budget of the people participating talking about what it is they plan to be reading to a saturday and you can share yourself using what youll be reading why youre excited about. Maybe with your cat snuggled up on your lap and participate in the larger Virtual Community that way. It is a money aspect to this as well. What is that . There is. Sort of summer to allow people to walk bonds or run a marathon for charity. We are inviting people come is optional but we love it wanted to consider raising money for the National Book foundation. The National Book foundation is most famous for the National Book awards that they give out every fall in fiction and nonfiction and poetry but they also do incredible work around the country bringing everything from literacy training tutoring home libraries, often speak to kids in needy communities around america communities that are not necessary getting the first, rich programming in books and the National Book foundation is filling that gap to suddenly race ago to help support their ongoing efforts for that program. So how does one contribute speak with great question. You can find on the readathon website to link to first getting. It is a platform for donations that many people of already are familiar with but its again similar to what is used for marathons and walkathon. You can donate any amount or set up your own fundraising page and raise funds that way. Its under the event called National Readathon day. So it is easy to find spent is there a target for how much money you want to raise . This is her first year trying to do this so were just living a completely open to see what is happening at im thrilled is almost 15,000 raised already in these early days but im really ready pleased to see the diversity of people donating and really its the kind of thing where even small amounts, five 10, 20 will make a big difference in overall getting us to a really nice number to give to the National Book foundation. So this is a benefit to the National Book foundation but who are some of the corporate sponsors behind National Readathon they . With a great group they came together, good reads is on board and has been talking about the readathon in their newsletter and on the website. They could having a Reading Party in San Francisco which is where the headquarters is and then one of the leading tech websites and has this incredible Monthly Book Club called national reads club. They are participating an event like that on their social media and theyre having a book party on readathon day in their headquarters in new york. From coasttocoast some nice sponsors speed and dont forget your own boss which is painful and random house. Thank you, peter. I would be in trouble for that one. And justin england random house, the Publishing Company come weve been supporting effort as well making his lovely videos which just started releasing yesterday actually and its writers like talk about why books are important in their lives of white in a time to read and they are fun but theyre also on the website and to be found on the social Media Channels again searching for that time to read hashtag. Making time to read is important because its biggest if you dont make time to read your brain will rot. A book can entertain. They cant enlighten. Theres nothing like a book to make you see the world anyway. If i get some of the impact books have had on my life, i would say they have saved my life. I have never been without a book. A book unlike almost anything else in life today dont require a password speaking i read when i should be looking at television. Its hard to find time to read but when you do, i always find. I developed my love for reading as a boy spent by the age of 10 i was already reading all kinds of crazy stuff. Spent don quixote of ivanhoe. And trash too. Alice in wonderland, treasure island. A faraway look comes into a childs eyes. His or her mouth drops open and you know that the child is lost in the story. To me that is the ideal time spent i like to pick up a book at my local network bookstore because i like a random encounter. For a little while why youre reading you leave your own world, leader of space and inhabit someone elses soul. Everything we hold dear is in books. All you have to do is pick them up spent a while, get a book and read. Keep reading. National readathon day, saturday january 24, noon to 4 p. M. In your time zone but the website once again jynne martin . Penguin random house. Com readathon, just search National Readathon day. Its the first thing that comes out. Thank you very much. Thank you. Booktv is on twitter and facebook. Ever want to hear from you. Tweet us twitter. Com booktv or post a comment on our facebook page. Facebook. Com booktv. Heres a look at some books that are being published this week. Look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for the authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv. Org. And now on your screen the Entrance Hall to the Las Vegas Convention certain, home of ces international, the annual trade show for consumer technology. This is the largest trade show in the world, and that the communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies that are coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Host well, gary shapiro give us a snapshot of 2015 ces international. Guest kicks off the year great, the centerpiece superl bowl, place for connoisseurs of innovation. They certainly have all come here. Were well over 160,000 people setting records by every measure for the show, but whats really impressive is not just the numbers of people, or the numbers of the exhibits or the size, but what is being shown here, the hope for the future if you will. This show used to be about television and radio and cd players and vcrs and things like that expanding into home office and then the internet came along, and it was about the internet and connectivity. Weve shifted even further and gone into, in a sense solving problems of the world. Not to sound too grandiose, but what were talking about is transportation problems are being solved a lot of driverless cars, safe cars, Food Production hunger. Theres a lot of ways of sensing crops, how theyre building, you know how much water to use. Health care. My gosh, theres more solutions for health care. Its exploded here. Sensors which get information to the doctor analyze information, use the cloud. And then safety. Safety in the home, safety of drones safety of everything. In an easy way exploring things remotely. So youre taking a lot of problems which perplexed us the last several years, and were going to be reducing them in the future x. Thats what really charges me up and we have so many ways to go still. The next several cess should be really, really interesting. Host 160,000 people attending, how many exhibiters . Guest 3600 plus, and thats more than 100 than we had last year. Its 2. 2 million net square feet of exhibit space. Its about 150,000 square feet more than last year. 150,000 square feet is the size of a show thats on the top 100 shows or so in the country. So we have added like a whole new show with this one event. Itll be difficult to pass that. Were a little space con strawned with the existing constrained with the existing facilities were able to use in Las Vegas Next year. Were trying to figure out creative ways to accommodate the companies that want to exhibit with us, frankly. Host well, you take over the Convention Center which is three big halls youve taken over the sands center here in vegas, and youre in several of the hotels as well. Guest yeah. So theres three major locations. Tech east is where we are now in the hotel that used to be called the hilton, now the westgate, and then the renaissance next door, and then the sands and venetian, we filled that. And then we started a new area could c space, and that is the aria hotel and its actually dedicated to content and entertainment, and we have our friends from the content entertainment industry, people who market on the internet and others, and thats exploded. We have people we sometimes disagree with like cbs les moonves, and all the others are there as well. Host mark fields, president of ford, did the keynote this year. A car guy gave the keynote at ces. Guest well, ford has been here for nine years now. Actually, mark fields have been on the keynote stage with bill gates about 11 years or so. Why not . They define themselves as a Technology Company and mark fields is keeping that going. He gave a fabulous keynote, and he talked about the future of transportation around the world and how they have a vision as a company, and it make sense. Host gary shapiro, how many government officials come to this event and what does cea have a message for them . Guest we have every fcc commissioner, members of congress, its a little new this year because we started when congress was starting, but we have members of congress that made the trip. And we also had a Large International delegation including two french cabinet ministers and a whole french delegation in governors, ambassadors to the United States because this is a destination for innovation and technology. The message for the domestic people, they want to learn, and i respect that. But the message is look what is here look at the 3600 companies that are here, look what is happening in the future, and be careful of any policy. You dont want to choke innovation no matter what. We realize there are safety issues guidelines. Government has a major and important role. But, please regulate with knowledge. Dont just regulate from the beltway. Internationally, the message is they all want to be like the u. S. They want to be innovators frankly. What are we doing right, how do we get our country positioned as ap innovator . And france especially, more than any other country right now is saying we want to be innovators, how can we do that . They have over 100 French Companies 150 actually exhibiting here. We have over 40,000 people from outside the United States coming to this event. Host what were some of the new companies here this year, some of the up and comers that excited you . Guest well, you know, you have the Large Companies from different fields that come here, and that excites us like under armour or lowes reflecting the intelligent homes. Under armour Wearable Technology and obviously warbles are big. But what really is the buzz and the excitement honestly is our startup area in the sands Convention Center. 350 companies, compared to 220 last year. You have to be a startup, you have to qualify but the emails im getting and the people are telling me they p spent three hours there. These are ceos saying eureka park, what excitement. And a lot of this is about we live in a world where anyone can innovate. Its because of these chips that Great Companies like nvidia and intel make you do a program that analyzes data and all of a sudden, you know youre creating wearable devices of all types, creating new things authority car, aftermarket products. Theres little chips that you wear, theres even chips you put in clothing now that measure your clothing, and now theres even i was excited when i heard about my wife is a doctor and said the most Exciting Company she saw is a company for women only, a cervical ring that you insert and it tells you when you are fertile which the vaticans interested in and people trying to con seen. Conceive. This gives you 48 hours, and not only that the information in the future will also provide everything that this provides. It could provide information on your heartbeat, on hour you go, and how far you go, and those devices are all over. I know this isnt for you, i can tell by the expression on your face, but these are things well be dealing with, washington will be dealing with a lot of these things. These are devices that have information, theres issues involving privacy, safety, of course, all the time. And theres issues involving even cybersecurity as you get to information devices like the this. Host all right. Two final questions, got to go to policy. You had all the fcc commissioners out here. A couple of big issues theyre confronting in the next month, Net Neutrality decision, mergers and spectrum. Does your organization cea, have positions on those three issues . Guest yes, we do. Ill start with the last. Spectrum is our oxygen, and its both licensed and unlicensed. The licensed sector people buy big Companies Like verizon and at t comcast, and they use it for whatever they really want service for their customers which usually they end up paying in some way watching advertising or something. Theres an auction thats gone well, the next auction we need is a lott of the Television Spectrum because we need that to get Broadband Wireless that americans want with. We also want unlicensed and thats where anyone with an idea can use it and create a product used for Garage Door Openers but also wifi. And if it wasnt for wifi, we couldnt do everything we wanted to do. So thats important. We think the fccs doing a terrific job. The over the air broadcasters are doing their best to throw a Monkey Wrench in the process. Theyve already delayed it with a lawsuit but well work through it. The second issue cybersecurity is a very important issue, of course. Especially after the sony thing and the Credit Card Companies were going to have to deal with it, live wit and rely heavily on our government and also caution consumers about what they do. And with every New Invention that comes up, theres always some downside, and this is one of the downsides of internet and wireless technology. Other people could get in and do some bad things. But well survive. Its a balancing act. Host Net Neutrality. Guest and Net Neutrality is something where, look i think the parties are in agreement on 99 percent of it. Everyone wants an open internet, Everyone Wants broadband deployment, and Everyone Wants investment in broadband infrastructure in the country, and the question is how you balance that out. And i think theres a lot of paranoia on both sides, i think but we cant get caught up too much in it and try to do something which is going to restrict not only investment, but competition. Because competition is the ans