fleck nesbit. good morning, and thank you for having me on.o the independent book publisher association is a nonprofit association of about 3500 independent publisher, was located primarily in the united states. but we do have some global members as well. and our members are really a diverse group. so they range in size, background publishingve everyonr publishers. tong their own book all the way through large, establish to independent publishers. so what is an independent publisher? you know that is such a great question, peter, and everyone defines it a little bit differently. and actually, we do have a document, if anyone's ever interested in reviewing the ave aocument that goes into the detail of how we define different types of publishers. so an independent publisher versus, for example, a corporate publisher. and in the united states, there are five major corporate trade publishers. and so it's anyone who is not a corporate publisher or a university press, which would be attached to a university or a higher educational institution. so wh