We had down here this weekend. We will be live all week. About hundred thousand people attend this event every year as well as about 350 authors are down here. Was founded by mr. Kaplan, founder of books and books as well. The big bookstore down here in south florida. Well, the cspan buses also year, and we are handing out but banks with our partners comcast here in the miami area. If you happen to be in the area, come on down. We are at Miamidade College the north side of downtown miami for the Miami Book Fair. In just a minute the panel in chapman all here at Miamidade College will begin will be beginning. Dave barry in the onion editors, humor columnist solve them. There will be introduced by brad meltzer who will be moderating the panel. The novelist will be joining us later. Ms. Kaplan will also be speaking, the founder of the Miami Book Fair, introducing and opening the weekend coverage. In just a minute well take you now to chapman all. Its rather full. We will be beginning or c
[applause] a number of you know me from previous years. Its hi pleasure to be here to welcome its my pleasure to be here to welcome you and on behalf of Miamidade College, the college that really puts forth maximum effort in terms of solen b tiers volunteers from all its constituents, students, faculty and staff to make this book fair happen as it does every single year. And for the past 30 years. Id like to thank our sponsors, there are many of them, but in particular o. H. Aryan know and American Airlines for their sport. Id also like to thank our friends, many of whom are seated right here in front. Thank you so much for all of your support this year and for the past years that this fair has been made possible in part because of your generosity. The end of the session, as you know, the authors will be signing their books. Theyll be autographing on this floor on the other side of the elevator so you can proceed to that end, and you will also have an opportunity to ask questions after
Into the earliest years of children being in a School Setting where we can try to reach them the best. Carol rasco is president and ceo of reading is fundamental. Ms. Rasco what is sure web site very quickly . R guy s. Org. Jane robinson as chief Financial Officer of first book and web site. First book. Org. We thank you both for it being on booktv and talking about your reading commitment. Thank you. This is booktv live coverage from the 29th annual Miami Book Fair. A full weekend of author panels, collins and other events ahead. Here is our lineup for today. In just a minute day humor columnist will be talking about his most recent book, lunatic and he will be joined by seth reiss in will tracy of the onion, the onion book of known knowledge is their latest volume. After that, naomi wolf will be talking about her latest book. Its called vagina a new biography. After that we want change d. C. To lila weaver and argentinian immigrant in his shoes written a book about her experiences, g
Havent changed in the book world over the past 20 years. Many things have changed. But im also very pleased to say that one constant over the past couple decades is the Media Presence of john mutter, cofounder and ed or to have in chief of the brilliant daily newsletter, shelf awareness. He was also the longtime editor at Publishers Weekly and the former e newsletter. Go to the web site, www. Shelfawareness. Com. Without further ado, ill turn the stage other to john who will introduce this panel of wonderful and talented booksellers who i know will offer you brilliant insight into the everchanging Book Business. Of john . [applause] thank you, gene. I dont think ive ever been called a constant. Thank you. [laughter] welcome to the independent bookselling panel. I want to start off by saying anything you take away from this session, it should be that contrary to current perceived wisdom, one independent bookseller stores are not dying and are not going the way of the dinosaur and, two,
Perfect. The Founding Fathers set up a first tee with the imperfections. Its called working together to solve problems. If theres a thick, thin me to be ironed out, glitches like fixing the website. Obviously the website should work. The Affordable Care act as i described this afternoon is so much more than a website. It means so much more to millions of people. Im ready. All of my colleagues on my side of the aisle are ready, willing and able to hammer out some of those problems that crop up. What we are not willing to do was repeal it and go backwards. [applause] is there any chance that congress will Work Together . Specifically, im a lemonade in the salary cap on the fakir reductions. , federal reductions . Fica for Social Security. You now, that concept is part of the broader discussion, which i hope we get to in congress on what to do about making sure that we had to do one terms of the sea of Social Security. Its really important and theres a variety of Different Things we can d