More information in our Program Guide or online at book tv. Org. Joining us on book tv is bradley graham. What has been the effect of the Coronavirus Crisis on your business. Has been pretty severe on us. Many retailers across the country. A bookstore is a place where people come to browse and shop at the Community Gathering center we had put on normal time slots. We had classes we have a coffee house. In much of that activity has had to stop. As the spread of the virus and the warnings to social distance. At the same time we had been able to carry on some activity largely through web orders and also at least until today curbside deliveries but even those have now been curtailed by the dc government. You have shut down your stores here in dc russian mark. It has come in phases. Finally last week closed the doors of all three locations to customer foot traffic. As of an order that was issued by the dc mayor last nights east even ceased even the curbside deliveries. What about author events how would you hold in a typical month . We were up about 15 or 20 a week about a thousand year. We had been building our author invents program steadily over the last decade we would hold several a day. In various venues. And all of that we tried for a very short while to hold some of them we separated the seating in such then authors began to cancel and finally we just decided to stop those events altogether in the interest of public health. But they had been Holding VirtualOffice Events is that correct. We started to reconstruct some of our event programming by moving it online and using a platform called crowd cast it allows the authors to sit in their houses or wherever and viewers to tune in from wherever and also offers the chance to put a buy button. Those head been joined a pretty good viewing number that range anywhere from 60 to 70. I think and one occasion we head over 200 viewers. If they were interested around the country where would they go. Click on the events button. You will see the schedule. Of author talks. You just follow the instructions its really very simple. Are you finding enthusiasm by the off first. Authors. We are kind of experimenting with this format we are looking at some of the very popular authors charging some small fee to watch and waiting that fee in the event that the book is bought. We are very excited about various features with this approach and it will allow us. Do you see this as potentially in the future when were out of this crisis . It could remain an alternative. There is nothing that beats the author getting the book sign in person and we certainly expect to return to that in the tried and true format once this crisis passes. Hopefully you can expect to see some of these on the book tv schedule as were looking for author events while we are in the mist of this crisis. Thank you for spending a few minutes with us on tv. Happy to talk to you. Thank you. As the coronavirus continues to impact the country here is a look at what the Publishing Industry is doing to address the ongoing pandemic. With book fairs and san antonio. And Charlottesville Virginia opting not to read schedule. The American Library association announced the cancellation of their annual conference in june in chicago. The festival of books originally set to take place in april has decided to hold their 25th annual festival in chicago. It has also decided to push back their scheduled dates to july. Five of the largest Book Publishers decided not to attend regardless. Bookstores around the country are trained to provide Remote Services through online sales and virtual author events. As stores had closed their doors and move to online sales and theyve also cut back on their staffing and many of the publishers had decided to delay the release of many books. Him have laid off staff in several Book Distribution centers had been temporarily closed. But tv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can watch all of our programs anytime. And a recent talk in hamilton ohio. They argued that solutions to come from the bottom up. Most politicians i am going to give you a couple of examples. The Civil Rights Movement you think that they pass the civil rights laws on their own Martin Luther king went to see john kennedy and kennedy he left the white house and he said kennedy didnt care. He was really upset about it. What happened over time because of king and some of the people i mentioned people began to see we needed justice. The pressure came from the bottom up. The marches, the gassing the dog biting the jailing it did not square with us. We wanted justice. And the politicians ultimately after a decade long struggle began to pass the laws. Women suffrage. Do you think the guys wanted to give you your power they didnt. You think about how long it took for women to get the right to vote. If you are an africanamerican and you have to wait even longer to get the right to vote because you werent favored. We demanded it from the bottom up. Im convinced that if we have not have the protest on our College Campuses we would still be in vietnam today. They would have some reason as to why we would still be there. They got ended by the students and the adults that finally said enough of this. Some is going to be true about that. Lets just talk about that for a second. They tried to pass the law. If somebody in the workplace was a threat to fellow workers where they were a threat to students on College Campuses there would be a judicial proceeding and input from Law Enforcement and the gun would be taken away from somebody who was unstable. They could get it back whenever they were stabilized. That is good to become law. Its good to take a long time. And people are going to demand it. Theyre getting tired of that. So folks. A couple things join a movement, start a movement. Give someone a hug. Put yourself in someone elses shoes. The great news is that we are in charge not them. We are in charge. And if we come together all across this country and i speak all across this country people are hungry for this. They just want to know what to do you dont have to climb Mount Everest you dont have to be greatest in berg you dont have to do all of these magnificent things if you cant do great things do Little Things in a great way together we can end the fighting and the vitriol and we can start to do the things that we want out of our government and in our communities. It would allow us to have a healthier and a more together nation and neighborhood and family. To watch the rest of this program does our website book tv. Org. She has been a real ibm and at the school for poetic computation. Additionally your essays and reviews have appeared in