Gables, florida, called books and books. Mr. Kaplan, has coronavirus affected your business . Yes, peter, unfortunately, it has. Weve been holding on as long as we could, but it looks like starting tomorrow were going to be closing down all six stores that we have in the meme area and trying in the miami area and trying to move our sales online and encourage people to buy a book at our web site. And this is happening, i believe, across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. And like normally happens, independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. So there are many, many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people who are suffering the same way we are. Host mr. Kaplan, are you doing this because the state of florida has mandated it or because youve seen such a drop in foot traffic and sales that its a necessity . Guest well, theres a couple of reasons why were doing it. One is at this point with the mandates that have come throu
Booktv know all of the major book festivals have been canceled cue to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to bee live in tucson and los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. So we know the effect its having on book fairs and large gatherings, but is it having an effect also on book stores and smaller businesses . Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of book stores in coral gables, florida, called book book. Has coronavirus affected your business . Guest yes, peter, unfortunately it has. We have been holding on as long as we could but looks like starting tomorrow, were going to be closing down all six stores we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online. Encourage people to buy at our website. This is happening, i believe, across the country, with independent book stores everywhere, and like normally happens in, independent book stores are very representative of what is happening with Small Business. So, many, many thousands upon tho
Been canceled due to the coronavirus. Booktv was scheduled to be live in tucson, los angeles and cover festivals in new orleans and san antonio as well. All canceled. We know the effect it is having on book fairs and large gatherings, but is it having an effect also on bookstores and smaller businesses . Mitchell kaplan runs a chain of bookstores based in coral gables, florida, called books books. Has coronavirus affected your business . Guest yes, peter, unfortunately it has. We have been holding on as long as we could, but it looks like starting tomorrow were going to be closing down all six stores that we have in the miami area and trying to move our sales online, and encourage people to buy at our website. And this is happening i believe across the country with independent bookstores everywhere. And like normally happens, independent bookstores are very representative of whats happening with Small Business. So there are many, many thousands upon thousands of Small Business people w
He owns the place after wall, right . I might be in some other book store. Its been a great ride. Mitch and i owe you and books and books so much and its wonderful to have cspan booktv here taping the show tonight. This is a bigtime, great. Before i get any further along, i want to see if i can work this. Lifetime new yorker declares himself a florida resident. Great, i thought. He must have read the book. Because quite a few of us have known but this startling development for quite a while. What is that, mitchell . Hes not here yet . Well, save a seat in the back. The fact is [laughter] the fact is, i had to make it very clear to george gibson, my editor and morgan and my publisher at Grove Atlantic that i was not intending to write a donald trump book when i went up to talk to them about what i had in mind. There was gossipping trump book in the pipeline i knew about and next year theres big telloff book the tv insider at the white house is coming out with and what george and morgan
Midst to talk about the shop. But first i want to talk about richard bell, scholar, beautiful writer. This book really jumps in with his incredibly human picture of a young by, and from that moment i knew that i was in sure creative hands but he is a remarkable scholar. Educated at cambridge harvard, moved professor at the university of maryland, has won one of the major awards and if theres a round of applause it is for people who are educating the next generation of historical people to have a sense of history and what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly as americans, and somewhere from wells is dedicated to helping us mine that history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment for the humanities. And has had fellowships from the Huntington Library in california to cambridge in england and everywhere in between, yale and the library of congress. So this is a mind we want sort of tilling the soil of americas past and helping us come to under and