This synagogue and Culture Center is now 15 years old, and its founders and staff rerealy deserve a lot of credit. [applause] they deserve a lot of credit for transforming this place into the vibrant Community Institution it is today. Were delighted be hosting jody kantor and megan twohey. They are of course the to two New York Times reporter who reveals to the world Harvey Weinsteins extensive sexual abuse. Their book she said is the rifting revealing account how they developed theyre blockbuster story, and its consequences in spurring the metoo movement. As they note in their preface, in the wake of the weinstein expo expo say which broke in act 2017, it was as if a dam wall had come down, many, many women not just in country but around the world, spilled forward to tell their own stovers mistreatment. In addition to the pivotal impact the jodie and megan roz recording that the way they went about confirm the story, that others before them had tried to nail, provides a terrific case
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You are watching booktv on cspan2, as 2012 draws to a close one of the things we like to do is look back at the year in Nonfiction Books and look ahead to 2013. Joining us to help us are two guests in the new york studio, Sarah Weinman is news director for publishers marketplace, Bob Minzesheimer is the book reviewer and reporter for usa today. Sarah weinman, lets start with you. Give us your general assessment of 2012 for the book industry especially when a comes to Nonfiction Books and what are one or two Nonfiction Books you want to talk about . Let me start by saying 2012 was a very eventful year in the Book Publishing world between publishers consolidating the department of justice, doing five publishers and apple on ebook pricing and later into the program, amazon expanding its publishing operations, the google settlement moving forward in different directions. Those alone account for a substantial portion of publishing news. On the nonfiction side it was a very strong year. In p