al jazeera america. i'm david shuster this week on talk to al jazeera literary giant james patterson >> your support of independentokstores is particularly interesting given that your traditional books are probably the least likely to help those independent bookstores. >> i don't know about that sentence in the sense that- i think my books sell well in bookstores. i mean they're not-- i-- like any other book i mean it's not gonna make or break a bookstore, what they sell of me or david baldacci etcetera. but it's helpful. but my thing is really to try to shine a light on problems. and one of the problems in this country is less and less and less bookstores. and that's a real problem. i mean it may all happen on the internet 50 years from now. we need great books in this country. the country needs a literature. we need bookstores. we need places where people can go in and talk about books-- with other people who are interested in books when i-- when i-- put out the million dollars to help independents-- you know the-- the response was unbelievable. the unfortunate thing is a lotta these people that are very emotion

fest >> this week on talk to al jazeera james patterson one of the worlds best selling authors. >> first book thomas berryman number was rejected by 31 publishers and i still keep a list of all the editors who rejected it. >> patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. the prolific and popular author responds to critics who say he relies too much on ghost writers... >> i do work with co-writers and sometimes people -well how can that be? well you know...

al jazeera. >> a beautiful setting. well, more on that story and everything else we're covering right here www.aljazeera.com. >> this week on talk to al jazeera james pattersonne of the worlds best selling authors. >> first book thomas berryman number was rejected by 31 publishers and i still keep a list of all the editors who rejected it. >> patterson's books have sold more than 300 million copies. the prolific and popular author responds to critics who say he relies too much on ghost writers... >> i do work with co-writers and sometimes people -well how can that be? well you know...