. >> now more from our set at bookexpo america. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> i guess the quiet means i am supposed to start. welcome. my name is michelle caplan and i'm happy to be here moderating this very important panel this afternoon. i have two apologies to make. one is i'm not al broker as you can tell and the second apology is i'm a little jetlagged. i was traveling -- mitch you never make any sense anyway. >> that's true. it does want to put those two things out there but we are here for a celebratory experience this afternoon. when james patterson announced in september of 2013 that he would be giving away a million dollars, that's a million dollars to independent bookstores in 2014 i personally was delighted as i am sure all the booksellers were who are out there. jim has always gotten it. he gets word our independent bookstores mean to our communities into the greater relationship our country has with books and reading. here is just a quote that i thought i would give to you and it's a quote tha

. >> host: booktv is at bookexpo america which is the publishers' annual trade

we are at bookexpo america where all the publishers come annually this new york city to display their wares for the fall season. you're watching booktv on c-span c-span2, television for serious readers. >> michael lewis talks about the rise of high frequency traders in the stock market and discusses how they manipulate the workings of the market with the help of big banks to shortchange regular investors. this hourlong program is next on booktv. >> thank you for coming. i wanted to start by explaining why it is i have the pleasure o interviewing michael thisart evening, and the -- i would direct your attention to the dust jacket of your book, the back, and there is a blurb here that reads: i read michael lewis for the same reason i watch tiger woods. i'll never play like that, but it's good to be reminded every now and again about what genius looks like. malcolm gladwell. [laughter] and my question is, who's more shameless? me for writing that or you for putting it on your book? [laughter] >> i just stopped them from putting it in an ad, because they're wearing it out. it was kind of

. >> host: lissa warren is now joining us on booktv here at bookexpo america, the publishers' annual trade show. lissa, what do you do, and who do you work for? >> i'm the senior director of publicity at da capo press. >> host: what kinds of books do you publish? >> guest: primarily history, military history, biography. >> host: and how was it founded? when was it founded? >> guest: 50 years ago. in fact, thank you for asking, this is our 50th anniversary. we're very proud to be around in a business that's a tough business these days. >> host: what are some of the titles? you've got quite a few military histories coming out in the fall. >> guest: one that i'm particularly fond of is crucible of command, and it's written by william c. davis. he looks very much at their time in battle with each other, but also at their personal lives and weaves it all together very nicely. we also have a book called "first field" by patrick k. o'donnell, he's someone that's done many books for us, and this is one that looks at the origin of the navy seals unit; how it started with a dentist and an arch

. >> host: booktv is at bookexpo america which is the publishers' annual trade show and one of the publishers that's here is wnd. the founder, formerly known as world net daily, is joseph farah. will farah -- mr. farah, what is wnd, first of all? >> guest: well, wnd, obviously, stands for world net daily, but, you know, it's a lot easier to remember three digits, three letters than it is world net daily, that voluminous title. and, you know, our philosophy is, basically, we're a multifaceted company. first of all, wnd.com is one of the largest web sites in america and one of the largest news sites. and it is the oldest independent news site on the internet, 17 years old. in internet years that's about a thousand years old. there are and we branched off many years ago, began publishing books more than a decade ago. in that time amazing story of wnd books is that we have the highest percentage of new york times best sellers of any publisher this america. any publisher in the world for that matter. and subsequently, we've begun doing a lot of movies, especially documentaries. and we're having tr