Spoke with Janet Webster jones who is the owner of sourcebooks sellers in detroit about how the shutdown how has affected her business Janet Webster jones give us an update five months into the covid pandemic. Well, we have quite a lot to say this time peter and thank you so much again for having us on cspan. You are also dear to our hearts. I look at sheila at home a lot. You have helped us really improve our business by the things you do. We have really had to have an experience of backandforth, open close, up and down that is been happening with everybody across the country. Because we take little step forward and then we have to back up a little bit. And i think that is the mode of the day as they would say. And so when we shut down we pivoted right away to online sales. But it took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and began to sell through the online website. In addition to that we also have added, people have added phone calls, emai
Thats good evidence that maybe you care too much in this one instance about what this instance is doing foryou and not enough about what it would do for other people. Who is supposed to be helping. Now look, it could be that you just happen to the case where it so important that someone say something. That even if your grandstanding, its still the right thing to do you should even in that case go in knowing that what youre doing is not optimal. It would be better if you werent motivated to seek status for yourself and if you were primarily just going for helping others. But its good to ask. Justin is right that one thing we didnt point out yet but that we discussed in the book is in might be okay in some cases to grandstand. Youre perfectly comfortable with that. Grandstanding may be more no different than lying in this instance, sometimes it would indicate a live but it doesnt mean that its great or laudable but it might be the best of a set of pretty bad options. So the thought is th
Here. Is really a celebration of a brilliant, timely new book and a time for us to have a really important discussion about what is going on in the critical region of the world. And of course the start of todays performance is the author of that great new book, scholar of contemporary asia he is distinguished fellow here at hoover pretties also a great friend, mishas really wonderful for us to be with you and sold by this tremendously book. The book is asias new geopolitics. The book is an important book at an important time about the reshaping that is going on across the indo pacific region. Michael is also the author of another tremendous book right behind here, called the end of the age of the century. Michael is one of the most prolific analysts on what is going on the region. If youve not already done it, set up a google alert for whenever michaels essays are published, you get them right away. So also the hopes of a wonderful podcast he does with sean view on the pacific century.
About the imaginary area it was exciting to be somehow in my boyhood terrain and is deeply familiar to me in one thing or another the books are easy to write, i did feel for was enough in the last word and forth book is enough but then i had a half book ten years later. People would murmur robert rabbit when i go by, does not happen too often anymore, im not exactly like him, our books are short in rough background but he stayed and i left is one way to put it. Every ten years readers were treated to look back on the decade filled with historical features of the decade and understanding through his eyes, where you catch me up to date on your reel of america 2005. What did rabbit make of iraq and bush and all that, i really dont know, a lot of robert observation is about the small changes in ease very interested in women and how they dressed and theres been quite a few changes and carried among female dress, he was struck by the rollerskating in the online skating and women began to jog
Experience with backandforth, open close, up and down its been happening with i think everybody across the country. We take a little step forward and then we have to back up a little bit. I think that is the mode of the day as they would say. And so, when we shut down we moved online right away to online sales. It took a little while for that to happen. So we quickly moved ourselves to online sales and began to sell through the online websites. In addition to that, we also have added an terms of people have added the phone calls, the emails, the instagram, and facebook requests as well. That was really a big surprise for us. And allison has really managed all of the online sales. Which means that we are sending out books from the store, directly to people. Then we kind of move toward having people pick up at the door. Because the governor did lift some of our restrictions. And allowed for curbside, we called door pickup because our curb is pulling bicycles, cars and people so we dont w