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joining us now here on the red carpet is david steinberger. chairman of the national book foundation. >> an organization that is committed to increasing the impact of great books on the culture. it is great to see her up their. the first graphic work ever to win a national book award >> did we just here what your vote was? >> i am not allowed to vote. we have judges that we fly in. they have lunch, and we tell them one thing. you have to pick a winner. no one knows who they we will be. >> how do you pick the judges. the former president of brown university. >> picking great thinkers, writers, leaders of the culture, a journalist, librarian, bookseller, different judges every year. a huge commitment. i think the selections speak for themselves. >> can anyone submit a book? >> it has to be published in the united states within the year, and the author -- the publishers actually submit the book. >> what about self published >> a great question. i'd can't talk about that right now. >> what is perseus? do you have any nominees? >> we do have one no

there's david steinberg on the red carpet. is chairman of the national book foundation which sponsors these awards and is also president and ceo of the perseus publishing crew. we talked to him a little bit earlier. and as we continue to talk to some of the finalists in the nonfiction category, want to introduce you to anand gopal was one of the finalists as well, "no good men among the living." congratulations on your finalist status. >> thank you very much. >> how did you approach your book? what was your approach to? >> well, you know, there's a lot of books out there that delve into policy, and what struck me traveling in afghanistan was more so the human stories. it taught me so much about the conflict. might approach was tried to relate that to the reader and the stories that you don't get to hear about. >> what is one of your stories? you have three people in your book? >> one is a commando in it in my reporting and he described to me how he joined the taliban, why he joined the taliban and what fields to see in afghani

joining us now on their red carpet is david steinberger president and ceo of perseus publishing group and also chairman of the national book foundation and. what is that? >> the national book foundation is committed to increase the impact of culture what we are best known for is a national book awards it is great to see her up there it is the first graphic novel or the first graphic works ever to win it is for her amazing book. >> host: did we just hear your vote? >> i don't have the vote we have judges we fly in from around the country. for different restaurants for different categories. we tell them you cannot get the check and tell you make a decision and so nobody knows though better -- though winner. >> host: how do you pick the judges? one was the first or the former president of brown university. >> other the leaders of the culture is an academic, a critic, a journalist or a library and -- library and it is a huge commitment to reach eight -- to read a huge amount of books they do wonderful job. >> can anyone submit a book? finigan has to be published in the united states when

. >> and david steinberg, a serial entrepreneur.e, with very low overhead. >> yes, that's what's cool about it. >> what's great about it. >> you weren't computer savvy when you first started. >> and still not. >> that's why i love her so much. >> i'm not a clickity clacker like someone else we know. one of the keys to the success of our website is we update our selections on a weekly basis. >> you change it up. >> that way the web viewer has something new and exciting, they can see the latest and greatest promotions, and it keeps it fresh rather than every season, it is every week. >> not everyone can start up a whole business, with the brick and mortar and all that stuff there are ways for people to do it in the way that you suggest online. >> yes. if you think about it, it is one tenth the cost to start a business today online than it was just five years ago. a lot of that is because technology is just cheaper. today, instead of having to spend thousands -- tens of thousands to build a website, you can go to places like square spa

david faber joining us. john steinbergon set, ceo of daily mail north america, cnbc contributor, jon fortt, kayla tausche. that does give you a sense of the money that is going to pile in over the next 24 hours? >> everyone thinks they're going to hit that $8.5 billion in gross merchandise value. that would be 45% year over year growth compared to what they did on singles day last year. and what's interesting to me, i wonder if you can look at that clock and time adjust and say if they've hit $100 million in the first two minutes where are they tracking to hit $8.5 billion. it's a lofty goal and investors have priced in a massive singles day. >> it's not popular to be the bear on this stock or the bear on singles day, but the important thing to remember now that alibaba is a public company is that much of the activity, the buying activity, on singles day is spurred by deep discounting. a lot of consumers wait for singles day to make their purchases because they've been promised discounts in the range of 50% depending on wh