the marketing concerns are smaller than artistic concerns in terms of the general acquisition process. that is another thing i cannot think the work we publishers speaks for itself. there s a really great work of art the personal between a smart author and smart publishing company, you will figure out what the readers want. i am going to jump in and apologize. we have to wind up the panel right here. i did ask that last question. if we get more one response, i think not. thanks for coming out. and joe dreyfuss, senior editor at large of the root . this panel is an hour-and-a-half. thank you. at the sunday, everybody. wow. we are going to change that. i want to say special thank you to dr. brenda greene who has the remarkable job organizing this production. they have done the job of heroes. wherever you are in the audience thank you for putting this together. we are going to spend the next hour or so looking at how a committee of writers and publishers and journalists
but the first thing i want to talk a little about and introduce our panel and then i want to just a little bit about the market wherein. i work for publishers weekly and i worked there for quite a few years as the people out there who know me, we are in and amazing. right now. but publishing is changing dramatically. even my own magazine, which as many print magazines are these days, facing a difficult business climate as print magazines and particularly treat her magazines have, we had then in the last two years actually was kind of issued a turnaround. i was choking ratio that hopefully pjb you is an indicator in some ways that the book business than the print i do that as well. but the digital side of it has been incredibly important actually in the pjb rebounding. digital side and actually new owner who acquired a in 2010, moved us to new offices and transferred has transformed us from a small part of a gigantic national public operation to really a small startup, really
we publish 250 books now and we have grown a lot more savvy with our marketing. we are ultimately esthetically driven. we re looking for great books. the marketing concerns are smaller than artistic concerns in terms of the general acquisition process. that is another thing i cannot think the work we publishers speaks for itself. there s a really great work of art the personal between a smart author and smart publishing company, you will figure out what the readers want. i am going to jump in and apologize. we have to wind up the panel right here. i did ask that last question. if we get more one response, i think not. thanks for coming out. let s give a big round of applause for our distinguished panel. thank you for coming out. is there a nonfiction offer or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. now booktv s coverage of the 2012 national black writers conference concludes with a panel di