Would you spend the majority of your day doing . That is a tough question because each day is different. I spent a majority of the time working with the publishers of what books are acquiring. With the future in the organization but i spend as much of my time there. How many books sold last year or water their revenues were give us a sense of how big. To give a sense of scale their five publishers that our pretty big. The second is harpercollins third decided Schuster Simon schuster. The last three are within 100 million of revenue of each other all pretty close to the same size. With two really big companies. But a unique feature is of the smallest title towns. We are followed by a substantial number of mitt mellon and grant dove publishing. And then to be selective in of that whole experience that is a unique strength. As of publicly traded company . Our revenues heard 600 million but just acquired perseus that is a 90 million company. That sells like a lot but if you compare that th
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Home. This was recorded in pensacola, florida in 2014. It is about 45 minutes. Good morning and welcome to all of you. Today for our discovery saturday series we have a special guest, an author who has written four books and he is going to discuss the latest of those four books. I have it here in my hand. Its entitled defiant the pows who endured vietnams most infamous prison, the women who fought for them and the one who never returned. Hes going to tell us about his book and then he is going to answer some questions and then he will be available to autograph copies of that book if you would like to see them. Now we are privileged in the course of his presentation to also have some of the pows that are mentioned in the book with us here today. We have ross. Who is sitting right over here, sir. We have Ralph Gaither who is sitting over here and Scotty Morgan. Where is Scotty Morgan . Scotty morgan right over here. Are there any others . Yes, sir. Bob flynn. Any others . [applause] list
I am the former historian of the International Spy museum. Museum. The Current Museum historian is a way out of town on a secret mission you will hear about in the future but im always delighted to come back and step in whenever necessary. You have come to a Wonderful Program in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy. The story we are going to be hearing tonight is a world war ii famous and dramatic as you will hear raid. Id like to say a few words by way of introduction. He is minister counsel for the affairs and education at the Royal Norwegian Embassy and hes been here serving in washington for about ten months on this particular tour he served previously decade or so. Immediately preceding post at the Foreign Ministry where he spends a number of times but also in good diplomatic fashion as mozambique, poland, switzerland and morocco. They are good friends of the museum and weve done a number of fun and interesting events with them. We are delighted to work with them again tonight a