this is available now where evver ebooks are sold. " washington journal" continues. how did you vote? guest: yes. when you look at the options we had, and they were not all good ones, it was the best of the options. the greater risk of the country, the greater risk of the middle class if we did not do anything. i felt it was the right to vote at this time. host: were you yes all along? did you have to get there in some respects? guest: part of it was the details of part of it. whether or not we could actually have bipartisan committee that will tackle this in a way that looks at both at revenues and expenses at the same time. given everything that we had to look at, this was the best decision. a lot of the die was cast some time ago. it is not a good precedent to tie average debt limit to this kind of rancor that we went through. we also needed to move forward. host: a u skeptical about the so-called super committee? guest: speaker boehner said he would only bappoint someone who would look at revenues. i think that is a mistake. both sides of the files need to appoin

and in fact, the money to the author's account from the ebook sale is better. the trade paperback it has a 15-dollar print bouck 15 dollar retail. the net to the publisher is $7.50, and the 7.5% list price royalty which is what is typical on the trade paperback gets to the author $1.13. so that is for the trade paperback. when you look at the trade paperback, you are looking at 810 dollar retail that's pretty much what the publisher, the $10 retail online for an e-book, that is what the publisher is going to price it is $10 so they get 70%. the same 70% which is the net to the publisher of $7 then the author is getting 25% of that net to the publisher said the author is getting $1.75. when the trade paperback is out, the e-book royalty is better for the author. but when the hardcover is out, each the royalty from the e-book is less advantageous. now the interesting thing that has happened and this is where many of us have our -- have been very upset at times is when did we publish of the e-book compared to the hard-cover? in the beginning, there's a move that t

"the supreme court" is available as an enhanced ebook with 11 interviews. the new edition includes an interview with the newest supreme court justice, elena kagan. you can watch multimedia clips from all the justices. "the supreme court" available now. host: we are back on tuesday morning, august 2nd, getting your thoughts on last night's vote in the house to approve this debt deal. action moves over to the senate today. around 12 easter on c-span2. we want to see how this may play out. conservatives are warning and lasting political consequences as the republican presidential field offers conflicting positions on the debt ceiling compromise. republican from georgia. what are your thoughts on this debate, last night's vote, and the action today? caller: i am worried about cuts in education. i am a 22-year-old college student and i received telegrams. there was an extensive application i had to go through to avoid the loopholes. i do not understand why you cannot cut back on medicaid. i see people that just have to write down their income on a piece of paper

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c-span's the supreme court, available now wear a fur ebook sar sold. >>> what are you reading this summer? book tv wants to know. >> well, what i have read recently is a wonderful book that i wrote. it's called "the speech." it's a good book and it deals with the filibuster that i gave in december talking about a very bad agreement reached by the president and republicans of extending the bush tax breaks for the very wealthy and also goes into some detail to argue the middle class in this country is collapsing and it also talks about the growing inequality of america and what this means for the future of the country so that is self advertising vote. as my book provided free reading and was a good book. there's another book that i have read recently which i like very much. and that is called third world america by arianna huffington. it's a very readable book. she's a good writer, and she touches on the, you know, the trends that we have seen for a number of years in terms of our physical infrastructure, in terms of education, in terms of health care but frankly if we do not reverse, and t

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what is now available as a standard and -- "the supreme court" is now available as a standard and ebook. it includes an interview with the latest supreme court justice, elena kagan. available now or ever e-books are sold. "washington journal" it continues. host: let me introduce you to sarah binder, a political science professor in washington, d.c., at george washington university. she is also at the brookings institution, a fellow in governance studies. our topic is to learn more about the experience this country has had with special committees and commissions, such as the want it has now created for handling the data and deficit -- handling the debt and deficit. i was struck by a headline in this morning's "washington times." "politics in every choice facing deficit panel." my reaction was, as in every committee -- hasn't ever committee at truces to make? committee haty choices to make? guest: absolutely. just because the committee is treated as not make the work any easier. host: they have been around for a very long time. even in the 1800's, congress was creating a special committee

about them is, of course, they'll destroy the used book market because there's no way to sell used ebooksugh i imagine someone is going to invent that but thank you. >> i scan my ipad, print it out and hand it to my friends. i'm just kidding. [laughter] >> in the back. >> thank you all very much. this has really been a fascinating conference. all of us in this room have seen in the last 6 years the miracles of this technology that we're all talking about and the benefits that we get from it. and there's no question that it has changed the world recently with all the things that you've discussed in the middle east and everything else. but in my opinion, there are three losses we get from this technology. the first loss is the relationship with the self. as long as i'm connected digitally to some technology, i'm disconnected from myself. i'm disconnected from solitude. i'm disconnected to thinking with nothing but my own mind. if i'm walking by a town pond and i'm on my iphone i'm not going to notice the swans and there's the loss with the relationship with other human beings. if anything o