If no one is making money off of the content, the Technology Companies and Service Providers are making huge amounts of money off of content. The two apple, amazon, they are profiting from content now. And the creator is losing their shirt and its not fair, but its also very shortsighted. If writers cant afford to keep creating, they wont. Mary, executive director of the authors guild, thank you for joining us on book tv. Thank you. Book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading the summer. Well, i have a bigger bigger stack than i have time. Right now i am reading the Wright Brothers which is the book, wonderful, american story of ingenuity at a creativity. The library of congress does a great series for members of congress where they bring in authors and they interview and talk about their most recent books. I had the opportunity to see David Mccullough talk about this book. Then they give us a copy of the book for those of us who come to the e
We had the honor of hosting daniel with his new book the poverty industry. I work with the event staff at politic politics and prose and a few quick notes. This is a politics and prose at busboys and poets event. This is the Newest Partnership we have had going on for about one year in which we are selling books and hosting events in three of the locations. You are at the 14th location, if you grab a calendar you can see different events scheduled throughout the city. Part of that is that you are in a restaurant and can order food and drug at the same time while hearing a great book talk. I encourage you to do so and treat your waitstaff well. At this moment please pick up yourself once in silence them so we dont have any unnecessary interruptions. After the event is over we will have a signing table an opportunity to chat with daniel a little more. If youll purchase the book at the front of the store that is where the cast register is. There also be a time for q and a. I have a microp
Kid that they were recruiting, they thought it would give them an edge. But in the end, he went to another school with a different zip code. Host gilbert gaul. Heres the book, billion dollar ball a journey through the big money culture of college football. Thanks for being on booktv, sticking around with us. Guest thank you for having me on. Its been great. Host live coverage from the tucson festival of books continues tomorrow. Now tomorrow, another full day of live coverage. Author panels and author callins. Some of the topics include immigration, race in america, Voting Rights and t. J. Stiles, pulitzer prizewinning historian, will also be talking about his most recent week about George Custer recent book about George Custer go to our web site, booktv. Org and get the full schedule. Or you can follow us on twitter to get schedule updates all day long at twitter [laughter] when i tune into it on the weekends usually as authors sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction autho
[inaudible] the role that [inaudible] have had in strengthening the Iraqi Kurdistan . You repeat that . Yes. If you could please comment on the role that exxon, the oil company exxonmobil. Yeah, sorry. Okay. Thank you. Exxon is one of a number of Large International Oil Companies that have signed exploration and production agreements with the regional government. They did that under threat from baghdad, that they might lose their positions and privilege to develop oil fields in parts of iraq. P. M. They need a Banking Sector they need to be involved in regional trade, but oil is king, and exxon has played a leading role. Seems like a good place to leave these things. David, once again, you have given us a comprehensive sweep of the kurdish issue as well as the politics of the entire region. Again, the book is othe kurdish spring a new map of the middle east. And here with author david phillips. Please join me in thanking him for his insights today. [applause] booktv is on twitter and f
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