In countless ways. The works of shakespeare, toni morrison, Jason Reynolds and Michelle Obama are of fire richer experience hard and silently read. Guest you are constantly listening and ill get my own fine and i think it might have some characters. I think it is less of myself as a poet who performs, and out is myself being like, let me hold your hand and tell you this thing i heard once. It is guiding people but in a different way. If i dont give everybody, the utmost respect and understanding and compassion and empathy, i am not doing justice to this book. Studies have shown the listening to audiobooks is more Emotional Experience and stories shared through other mediums. Is none of your book but it has the best of both worlds. It is a very intimate form of experience in the start because you actually human being giving the story to you. Noi absolutely love that. Tearing this how the person is telling thest story. Hearing your novel read aloud and bring transformed into an audiobook
Memories. We have another division called Grand Central publishing that has been around 35 for 45 years we have the Childrens Book division we have a christian division in the nonfiction imprint is another one that does audio versions another group to publish for all kinds of readers. Why all the imprints . The bottom of the creative teams of a way of publishing with a lot of Publishing Companies with the harper brothers the publishing is a collective activity c1 groups that are focused around those individual titles. Then they will said lose those publishing imprints they have different personalities the way they are brought into the world you want that branding. To see that is the basic book necessarily. But people in between the publisher and the reader of the review rescind of loggers and it means something to those people say you want to have them because of this energy that works. It is like reading. How long has it been around . The Third Largest publisher in the world and they
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
He glided into the base in thailand and as soon as the wheels touched down on the runway, the engine stopped because he was out of fuel. It is just one of these incredible stories of aviation skills in heroism and why is that valor . He was doing that because of the loss of his friend to try to help his friends on the ground. So it was a combination of worry free, commitment, love, all of those that make up the real definition of the word dowler. And then, i am sorry to tell you, a few weeks later, leo was shot down and i ended up in the same cell with him many years later when the vietnamese photos altogether. On a recent trip to new york city, but tv tour the headquarters of publisher Simon Schuster. While their convoy profiled several principal players responsible for a books publication from acquisition to editing, publicity and sales to be also discussed the history of Simon Schuster now in its 90th year and the Current Health and future of the Publishing Industry. Who were Simon
Investigative agencies. With a raid into was a situation that was really upside down. Normally they would try to find evidence and then find out what is going on and they found nothing. They couldnt find any crimes. So they did file a report saying that we dont have anything on these guys and they had seen most of them as being like dirt farmers. Sort of an agricultural bounty of afghanistan. [inaudible question] is rhythmic that all of these legal issues arise in context with the situations for all of us. And its great that we can learn about our systems of justice from this. Particularly for the folks that are being prosecuted. Given that the administration has made clear that even if they are found innocent, they have shaped the case. And if you do conclude that this is theater for the entertainment of americans are we finding that the real aim for one of the things coming out of it is there is a use of these to control how this is told by the media and exemplified by how tightly th