All time. Mitch albom will be our guest to talk about the 25th anniversary of his book. Tuesdays with morrie. But first, heres a look at some stories from the publishing world. Us book sales ended this summer, down 5 compared to last year. Thats according to the publishing news site publishing perspectives. But those numbers look much better when evaluated against prepandemic book sales. Compare to august of 2019. This year, sales were up 14 . So what is driving book sales today . Well, according to npd bookscan. Romance books are the leading growth category. Nearly 19 million units. So far sold this year. Bookscan traced the growth in romance sales to the viral phenomenon of book talk in which users of the social media site tick tock promote their favorite books. Quote, its clear that book talk is contributing to the most romance gains and helping to create a new romance fan base among young readers. Thats according to bookscan. And in other book news, the Seattle Times recently took
Talk about the 25th anniversary of his book. Tuesdays with morrie. But first, heres a look at some stories from the publishing world. Us book sales ended this summer, down 5 compared to last year. Thats according to the publishing news site publishing perspectives. But those numbers look much better when evaluated against prepandemic book sales. Compare to august of 2019. This year, sales were up 14 . So what is driving book sales today . Well, according to npd bookscan. Romance books are the leading growth category. Nearly 19 million units. So far sold this year. Bookscan traced the growth in romance sales to the viral phenomenon of book talk in which users of the social media site tick tock promote their favorite books. Quote, its clear that book talk is contributing to the most romance gains and helping to create a new romance fan base among young readers. Thats according to bookscan. And in other book news, the Seattle Times recently took a look at how this years record breaking he
Talk about the 25th anniversary of his book. Tuesdays with morrie. But first, heres a look at some stories from the publishing world. Us book sales ended this summer, down 5 compared to last year. Thats according to the publishing news site publishing perspectives. But those numbers look much better when evaluated against prepandemic book sales. Compare to august of 2019. This year, sales were up 14 . So what is driving book sales today . Well, according to npd bookscan. Romance books are the leading growth category. Nearly 19 million units. So far sold this year. Bookscan traced the growth in romance sales to the viral phenomenon of book talk in which users of the social media site tick tock promote their favorite books. Quote, its clear that book talk is contributing to the most romance gains and helping to create a new romance fan base among young readers. Thats according to bookscan. And in other book news, the Seattle Times recently took a look at how this years record breaking he
Wanted and negotiations with san mateo and others and how we do the approach is whats going to take extra funding the transmission upgrade has been a challenging project it has changes in it its going to require extra funding and the recapture project also the scope has changed and need 5 million were still actually working on this project really to fine tune it and see if we can come up with a better approach so this gives you in a nutshell i have a question on the recapture project and i cant find the reference in my notes but i recall in the reconfiguration of the project there was a range of water production depending on the approach you took and it looks as though were choosing to fund at the low end of the range and im wondering why that is. I cant answer you that question right now i will get back to you on that but we were coming up with a different combinations if we recover this water and have to mix it and how do we the Treatment Plant and i think those combinations are the
For the discussion. Everyone was positive in general about the progress made at nato. And some of the challenges we face externally. But, of course, some of the challenges internal to the alliance were not discussed as much. And i thought, perhaps, bob can put you on the spot a bit and talk about one of those which is in turkey, was a surprise that the turkish government decided to open negotiations with a chinese firm to provide missile capabilities. Could you comment on where you see that going, whats the latest status is and the u. S. Government perspective is on that. Well, the u. S. Government perspective is quite clear and that is our good allies, the turks, should acquire a system thats nato and operable. If that were true before ukraine, i think its true in space given the ukraine. So heres a case where the turkish government had a set of metrics to influence a cooperation, a competition. And somehow nato operatability wasnt on that list. And i have a feeling that even the capa