That. The guy who edits president bush, keep him in mind. He knew me and asked if i had a book. And he said what about your stories and he said you tell Great Stories about president bush. And i remembered i took the from the amtrak train and it was in my wallet for three years. All of a sudden i pulled it out and said i have do this. This is my book proposal a. Ripped up piece of paper folded in my wallet for three years. Sean looked at it and said leave this with me and went to this bosses and said we should do a book and they said that book will never sell and if you want to do something political we will help you. I said i am not doing that. I was a little humilitated. And then sean went to another publisher, my publisher. He said what if you did your book here. His team gave him a lot of room to run and he helped me structure the book. I wanted to fill in the gaps of history about president bush and provide mentoring advice to young people who didnt go to Ivy League Colleges or yo
The. Who was Simon Schuster . Guest well they were max shuster and simon and they were two gentlemen who were friends with one another and we back in 1924 they decided to start a Publishing House on their own. They have been working in Publishing Houses but felt they could begin on themselves so they did. They set out one day and they rented a space and put up a sign that said Simon Schuster publishers. Host would they recognize what you do today . Guest know i think they totally would. Some of what is really interesting when you read through the history is to realize how many things go in circles and what is old becomes new again. They use as an example the reason they would recognize what we do today namely its because the job of the publisher has not changed at all which is defined great work. Depending on what kind of work it is and then to find an audience that commits that audience to buy it. We have always been the conduit between the artist in the consumer and that has not chan
Visible but have the potential to be no less than tactful. The outlook sync and go to. It seems like now that it is more and more. That can be overwhelming and i tend to focus on the few and focus on them will well. I think that that is a great strategy no matter what. But we have a big group here that we can divide up responsibility so that we are covering all of our tracks and again, there might be 100 people reading a blog that i have never heard of it but there might be 100 if book buyers and that could be more tactful than an ad review in a publication. Host how is it part of this . Guest its a huge part of it. But the social media aspect has been programmed. And i think when you talk about this and books, we tend to think of it in terms of the social Media Presence in what he or she can do to connect with readers. And again, this comes back to how it is not merely about the media as much as it is now almost equally important direct to consumer relationships. Often that is more ef
Things. Any book where there is a high advance i am involved in the acquisition and i look over what everyone is doing and offer suggestions but i am there really to make sure that the things the Company Provides the publishers help them do their job better and help them find those audiences and communicate to them. Guest i manage the editors, the publicity, the marketing, foreign rights and oversee the birthing of the books into the world. Host so you have some editorial duties and business side duties, correct . Guest absolutely. The idea is to publish the authors as successfully as possible. Host you publish about a hundred books a year . Guest we are the Flagship Division and publishing 130 this year. It is a range of authors. We have literary novelist and Major Writers like thomas, Hilary Clinton, james web, john mccain. We have got notable personalities and a lot of terrific general nonfiction with biographties from everybody from sally ride to john wane to literary memoirs. Host
To be smarter to partner with them. We put a lot of money into distribution systems, replenishment, poin tofsale through Business Analytics to determine what should be in our stores and we are not as good as you. I cannot have 10,000 planetariums but they can do some carrying. We invested a long time ago also the returns so again so to give the books back to use in another manner so there is no duplication for retailers so the one that has taken as the of far this is the use of data so there is a lot of arts in the business so it in that schaede retail environment you recognize that buyer immediately they have a passion it is not just batteries and tore the paper they like box so views they analytics fight the battle within their own organization why we want them located so it selfserving helps us keep the space within the retailers but also act as a good steward of the product. We will move on to the second part what is the most innovative programs tries specifically . I think three y