the only thing i really knew about carolyn reidy is that she loved to read. only met her one time, is the greatest long distance relationship of all time. >> i think carolyn's legacy is understanding how to move the publishing industry into each new age that comes along, including the digital revolution. >> she was ceo during the hard time, hard time for books, hard time for the economy, and instead of trying to paint all over that, she said we got to change in certain areas. >> the bookselling world had some ups and downs during those periods and she never stopped pressing to try to figure out what it was and what it is that we could do to be better. >> among the many things that made carolyn special is that she knows about something larger than herself. it wasn't just, can we make a profit this quarter, it's, can we make the world a better place. she did it to books, she did it through the emotional connection, but she did it through everything from the national book awards to all the organizations that she participated in you knew that she was motivated by

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