Guest this is our first year for exhibiting and for me attending bookconker but were very excited to have a chance to interact directly with readers and have them come and see our authors signings its a lot of great stuff to see the interaction of readers. Were watching right now we see book bloggers are interacting with their fans, so its happening on a lot of levels. Host and because bookexpo is just for publishers and related industries. Guest right, right. Through our retailers. Were always dealing with the public but this is new, to really try to have direct interaction with readers. Host jamie raab. Guest this is my first time here, but i was amazed when i saw the lines of people. Its thrilling to think that people care enough about books to come to Something Like this pay money, get to see the authors. I think its fantastic. Host what is Grand Central publishing . Guest well right now we have a signing, we have an author named meredith wylde who wrote a series of erotic books ra
Solution again, im not going to penalize that, them for that at all. I think the fact is, as you said with Technology Particularly were in Different Office locations anyway. So often theres really no way i would know if someone was calling me from connecticut or from uptown. But at the same time, i think there is the reality of the fact that we also, the work that we do is very much people work. Its theres a lot of our work that just is not when everybodys on a conference call, the quality of the ideas and interaction that come out are not necessarily as good in my experience as when we are sitting around a table looking each other in the eye. And so i would tend more towards being very flexible in terms of helping somebody get through particular issues that they may have to deal with that might be short term, but in general i really like for the people who are working together on a team to actually be there together physically for the most part. Yeah. I mean, i would agree. I have som
To put people to work to do it that is why we need to put people to work. Moderator the next question is for mike bost. Much has been made of timber. I have to start to say as i noticed it is amazing that i do that all the time that i have only ran two times and my wife says she has bought me or ties than that. So i need to explain. Maybe, just maybe, there are times when we need our legislators to stand up. I will tell you if someone violates your right or on the house floor in washington or in springfield then they need to stand up for you. They need to stand up for you. That is what they do. Or if they have rules that make it to where your representative, or any other representative, does not have equal time and the opportunity to represent the people that they need to be then that is the time you need your legislator to stand up. When the issue that everyone puts on the ads on the internet, we got calls from 50 states and six Foreign Countries to tell us that is the way i feel abou
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