South korea, spain or australia. If you were to create a society with these companies you would have something that looks like the b. C. Him out of the matt damon movie. This year, when america wakes up to the fact that google, amazon, facebook and google are the biggest tax avoiders in the world offering 20,000 to store their eggs and offer battery eternity benefits, there and municipal Transportation Health benefits, dna testing, effectively economically through lobbyists they have achieved what the south was unable to do militarily, he effectively seceded from the u. S. And i think theres going to be a revolt against the. They decided they opted out of our tax and government system as they feel they can do it better on their own. So lets talk about amazon. We think amazon will decline in influence. That is why i was invited. I one of the few who believes that. Why is that . We dont believe pure play mono channel, retail works for anybody including amazon. The best example of this is
Ive seen books that got terrible reviews that have gone on to sell very well. They review relatively few books. Thats the hard part. It matters greatly to the author come and the New York Times can only review so many books. They are limited by the number of pages in the book review and are so many, i know they have to say no to a lot of books that they wish they had the room to cover. And then you know, that always puts them in our position. Host i promise that wasnt set up, but maybe it was. Booktv went to the New York Times and we did a profile interview with pamela paul who was the editor of the new times book review section, and heres just a little bit of what she had to say. Do publishers want their books reviewed in the New York Times speak with yes but not if its negative. I guess, very much so. Unfortunately, we are the last remaining freestanding book review newspaper book review in the country. So the Washington Post book world before the San Francisco chronicle sold at thei