it was listed in brad stone's book about him. they do not adore the way he is portrayed. story of the book is very interesting because it's a book about him, amazon, a very important company. his wife goes on amazon to review the book and i thought it was an interesting tech story. it is a list of about eight hostile things. >> and people don't love the books but i challenge people to find a single thing that's wrong. >> the quote gets at something about the changing opinion on amazon. maybe it's also a little frightening? >> lazy or incompetent. i'm probably both on some days. let's stay in seattle. this is from a seattle restaurant. "if you wear your google glass inside and film or photograph people without their permission, you will be asked to stop or leave. if we ask you to leave, for god's sake, don't start yelling about your rights." >> some people love it. the issue with google glass, and it came up in the restaurant, you can record everything around here. other people at the restaurant did not want to be recorded by someone wearing google glass. it's one of those

then brad stone, a senior writer for bloomberg business week chronicles the career of just bezos. and the life of henry ford is recounted in the rise of henry ford. also for an extended list and links to other publications for the 2013 book selections, visit the booktv website at booktv.org. >> i traced through the narrative of a woman's life and so the book looks at girls and how we raise gross and what kinds of expectations that we as a society put on as girls and young women. in this includes issues around body image that is different for women still. which is a really painful chapter to write great looks at marriage and babies and housekeeping and agent. and so it really tries to follow the arc of a woman's life. and so i would just like to touch on three of the issues and i have chosen him at random and i thought that it would be nice to touch upon. the first is beauty and body image. the second is marriage and how it has and has not changed and the third is housewives, which you might be a little young for, but you can probably imagine it. so let me just start by talking abo

brad stone, his book is out there, winner of the -- winner of the prestigious "financial times" awardn the cover of "bloomberg businessweek" is how blackberry became a relic. you can download it later today. this is "bloomberg surveillance " on bloomberg television. ♪ >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." i'm tom keene with scarlet: alix steel. >> european banks might make job cuts next year. the lenders in the region will cut at least five percent of .rading and advisory the job cuts could be as deep as 15%. european banks have already cut 140,000 jobs in two years. a los angeles gas station owner selling artwork from a graffiti artist at auction. the flower girl is forecast to sell for more than $300,000. the owner said he did not know who the artist was when the artist started painting and later he removed a chunk of the brick wall to preserve the work. what started as a single walkout last year has grown into a national movement. fast food workers and 100 u.s. cities to walk off the job in a call for higher pay. they are looking for wages above $15 an hour and the r

. >> brian, i remember because i -- there's a great book, brad stone's book on amazon that's out right it's funny to go back and remember and think through how skeptical people were of amazon's valuation, of its business model at the time, saying how is this company possibly worth more than sears? sometimes high valuations are justified when you talk about innovation and reshaping the way we use things and order things. maybe that's the case with some of these high-flying names today. >> i think so it is in a certain sense. have you to be careful with ones -- snapchat not public, it's hard to value. the fact their content disappears in ten seconds, that's not sustainable. it's all about where the eyeballs are, where people are congress gating, if there's a different functionality to the communication. twitter has it. linkedin has it. facebook with instagram has if. that's really the winners in this game. >> brian, last question because we have to go. i wanted to ask briefly about the weakness in the energy space today. what do you think is driving that? >> you know, i think it's -- we

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