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Takes place online or in person. I think our mission has stayed very much the same even though the way we might deliver those services has changed. But we do have a new Strategic Plan that will well be coming t with shortly, so youll see how some things have changed and how were trying to better reach the communitys needs. I just wanted to take just a quick second to thank everyone. Like i said, we could go on forever. I wish we had some more time to talk about some more things, but i want to thank becky clark from the library of congress. Visit the library of congress. I want to thank mary el...

That represents all authors, and were trying to ensure that authors can make a living today and its getting harder and harder. So we did a survey of our members about a year ago where we found that as we had suspected from anecdotal evidence that authors are making less money, and our survey actually showed us that the mean income was down over 30 , from a mean annual income of 24,000 a year to just 17,500. So were talking about pretty low wages for a book author, who tend to be very highly educated, and its getting to the point where its becoming really unsustainable to be a book author. So, ...

I feel very lucky to have chosen she later said she had an eating. I said that, yeah, thats a good question. I will come back to you with a better answer later. Anyone else . [applause] thank you. Thank you all for coming out. Please line up to the right. [applause] [inaudible conversations] is a booktv on cspan2 and we want to know whats on your Summer Reading list. Send us your choices at a booktv is on twitter handle. You can post it on our facebook page, facebook. Com booktv or send an email to booktv cspan. Org. Whats on your Summer Reading list . Booktv wants to know. Youre watching book...

Live coverage of the lost Angeles Times festival of books on the campus of the university of southern california. A couple more hours of live coverage ahead. You can get our full schedule at book tv. Org and you can follow us on twitter or facebook to get the behindthescenes photos and other photos of the festival. We are now joined by Bob Streisand are who has written this book, incarceration nation a journey to justice and prison around the world. In your book you write america is the Worlds Largest largest jailer . Guest we are and it is a title we should wear shamefully. We have 5 of the w...

We are either mad at its upper west side. We invested in this store to help harpers magazine also because i could not see another cash machine open i will make an appeal to you. Because in this space. With the fight against the amazon domination. To be worse and worse. And before the easy chair columnist. But was kind enough to give me a lastminute. Does anybody know this . That amazon is not happening to book selling but the future is happening . And that is what amazon wants what eight amazing to residents. [laughter] but we dont take that line down. And with this issue thatd is on sale in n...