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laframboise, bookseller at politics and prose bookstore. >> i've been in the book business for two decades and over that time i've met a lot of wonderful smart people. i'm pleased to say five of those colleagues are assembled here at the stage to discuss the often frustrating industry that we love. in new york city people from all corners will gather at book expo america, the annual book convention. i suspect many of the talk here about today will be the same subject discussed in new york next week, so please sit back and we offer you, the c-span viewers, an exciting chance to see be...

lists. .. >> next weekend. city people from all corners of the book industry will gather at book expo america. to discuss every aspect of the industry. i suspect many topics you about today will be the same subjects discussed next week. so please sit back and we offer you the c-span viewers an exciting chance to see behind the curtain the power of what you will see in the future. michael is a senior analyst in the research firm simba information. without further ado, i will turn things over to michael. enjoy the panel. >> thank you very much, gene. my name is michael norris and i am ...

when -- segregated, when black folks weren't allowed to eat in restaurants or go to school or ride on certain parts of buses or drink out of the water fountain or even have equal voting rights at the time. >> uh-huh. >> that was what was going on in this country at that time, which was a terrible thing. and so that is what i was accused of, being a triple racist murderer. >> and in the book you write about growing up in a household that really was violent and difficult. facing your father across the living room with shotguns. >> yeah. my, my family life was not violent. the violence ...

here i have discovered the truth. >> to be the truth. >> well, it says -- yeah. [laughter] but the love of truth is the spirit of man. given where i was and for how long i was there, this is incredible, i have no business at all being here now. >> that is absolutely correct. >> now, you say that you were in jail 40-something years. what do you mean by that? >> well, i was in jail 47 years. the fact that we are born into a prison, actually, when we're born, we're born as perfect beings. perfect means complete with all of our possibilities intact. but we're also born into a world of sl...