matt: harpercollins history? >> yes.t of in perspective, it is twice the run of the game of thrones last book and two thirds bigger than the left hunger games. we are looking at revenues of $30 million to $40 million. it could eventually go to news corp., which is a parent company of harpercollins. matt: harry potter, game of thrones, and what was the other one? >> hunger games. matt: this is slightly less nerdy than those things. stuff. very real and to kill a mockingbird is the region -- is the reason, we had to read in school, it still makes a ton of money. >> harper lee is 89 years old and she is making a ton of money. every single day she is making $9,000 in royalties, and one half of 2009 she pulled in $1.79 million . to kill a mockingbird has had 55 of watchman, but it will be interesting to see 50 years from now how far that goes. matt: it will be interesting to see what people think of the book. >> just as this book is coming out over the course of the day the narrative from rebel from something where it is actu

harpercollins is about to make a time of money for it. -- monroeville, they have survived on this industrygbird tourism. matt: really interesting stuff. thank you. pimm is going to stay with me. we will be right back. ♪ welcome to the bloomberg market day. the world runs on oil. it has been a wild ride. five consecutive sessions of declines. what drives the price swings? greece is too distressed. what does this mean for the cash-strapped country? we will continue to talk about greece. clicks the new york stock exchange computer malfunction prompts --. democratic lawmakers respond. matt: good morning. pimm: let's look at stocks. s&p 500 index adds

i also have a book coming out with harpercollins called "drawing blood."rian: why did you go to gaza? molly: i was in palestine for a literary festival. i hadn't planned to go to gaza and then i met a journalist who walked me through the bureaucratic process by which a journalist can go there. because you know it is under , blockade, so it is difficult to visit right now. and i had the opportunity, and so i went. brian: where were you in gaza? molly: i was staying in gaza city. brian: what did you see? molly: the piece i did was about a suburb of gaza city that was very close to israel and was completely flattened by israel. i saw a level of decimation that i'd never seen outside of the one-day i went to syria. in fact, it was almost more serious. more thorough. because in syria, the decimation , is done primarily by bombing campaigns. there's bombs, then there are tank shells, and bulldozers. the whole neighborhood was gone. you saw people living in ruined houses, surrounded by the smashed rubble of their former lives. you saw a lot of poverty. you saw pe

mcdonagh murphy will be signing in the harpercollins booth51 2513 at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. following today's1: program. now, please extend a warm welcome for nancy pearl and mary mcdonagh murphy. [applause] lause] [applause] >> it is so nice of you to come out this early to see and here from mary about her knew book. i'm just going to jump right in with the questions. mary how did you come to do this book? one of our all-time favorite books. i was talking to a young woman last night from vanguard press. i knew we were doing this this morning. amanda do you remember when you 1st read to kill a mockingbird? mr. elliott, 7th grade. that's one of the things i think is so true. oprah winfrey told me that she really calls this our national novel. it is just one of those novels. you can ask anyone to aa person and they >> it just has that effect. >> and so what -- how did you read it? >> i almost escaped high school without reading "to kill a mockingbird" because it had month not been assigned. h and my mother and sister who know quite a lot about books were talking to me one more

it is the most preorder book and harpercollins history ever.the most preorder book in amazon's history ever since the last "harry potter" book came out in 2007. in terms of its initial print run, there were 2 million copies that have been released. for perspective, we will talk about "game of thrones," for example. it is twice the month of the last book and two thirds the run of the last "hunger games" book. we know those all did so well. that could basically translate into revenues of $30 million and $40 million for news corp., the parent company of harpercollins. brendan: the real money is when the book becomes part of the curriculum in high school or university. could this joined the curriculum -- toto kill mockingbird kill it mockingbird?" ramy: it's an interesting question. everyone adores it because it is a coming-of-age story of a little girl who sees racism and says, this is not right. however, not to be a spoiler alert, if folks do not want to hear this, do not listen. basically, the protagonist becomes a big it in the sequel. -- a big

i'm coming out with harpercollins. i still draw pictures. brian: are you afraid of being successful? molly: that is an interesting question. i don't know what that means. very often people become swaddled in their own success and they become soft and stop seeing things clearly. i might fear that. brian: let's go back and look at some more of your art. molly: that handsome gentleman. brian: when did you do this, and what are we seeing here? molly: i did that based on a picture that i took in dubai last summer. i was in abu dhabi doing a piece about migrant workers that are building western museums. sort of as a lark, i went to dubai for a day. i knew that trump was going to be there. trump was building some golf courses and luxury housing. i got into the press conference and trump is saying, the world is so full of failure, and here in dubai everything is perfect. and why can't new york be like dubai? trump would never dare say that in america. it made me somewhat angry. also, i had been doing some investigative journalism and i knew that the

so i read a good number of these novels and i talked to my publisher harpercollins about whether they could be published. the upshot of our discussion was, well these novels are a little too sectarian. we tried to publish for the broadest possible audience. so these books books were and i should be clear they are genre novels thrillers political thought spoilers fantasy detective novels or pulp fiction, these were classic instances of the genre with some kind of conservative theme or catch. maybe the private i've is a conservative and his commentary is conservative cast. it's not like novels about the keystone pipeline for example, which is one of the up session of the rights today, but a sense or point of view of narrative fiction. at one point he started looking into this and i realized it wasn't just a few writers here and there but scores and hundreds of people who are libertarians who had been inspired by the advent of amazon and digital self-publishing technology to write and publish their own. yet they were were having a lot of difficulty finding their natural audience. select

molly: harpercollins. brian: how expensive is it going to be? $25 for hardcover. : brian: you work for fusion and "vice." anyone else? molly: i have done a few pieces for "vanity fair." i have a piece coming out, a friend of mine, sent me photos of what life is like under barrel bombing and i hope to do justice to that. he wrote a beautiful essay to a company that. brian: thank you for spending an hour. molly: thank you so much. ♪ >> for free transcripts or to give us comments, visit us at q&a.org. programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> if you enjoyed this week's interview with artist and journalist molly crabapple, here is some other programs you might like. alex gibney talking about a his profile of jack abramoff. genetical, the director of the smithsonian african american museum of art on its 50th anniversary, and aaron wolf on his project "king corn." you can see these programs on q and a.org. my your comments and calls on washington at journal. then the opening of the cuban embassy in washington, it the sea. -- in washington, d.

harpercollins says it sold more than 1.1 million copies.he fastest selling book in the company's history. it was never published. those are your top stories at this hour. coming up in the next half hour of the bloomberg market day, cuba reopens its embassy in washington after a diplomatic freeze that lasted five decades. we will look at the future of relations between the two nations. company'sok at the impact on the movement of money around the world. -- joins us from london. >> the 4.2 billion euros to the european central bank, also repaid other creditors. the deadline was one it couldn't afford to miss. ecb cut have seen the off funding to greek banks. that could have led to a default and grexit. we have seen this optimism today in european markets. you can see gains pretty much across the board. the after stock exchange still closed today. we hear it will stay closed through wednesday. banks have reopened and angela merkel has held up the prospect of a limited debt relief for greece. the picture is looking pretty hopeful for europe's c

a record.l sets harpercollins says it has sold more than 1.1 million copies of watchman," and harpere wrote it after "to kill a mockingbird," but it was never published. scarlet: congress trying to keep highway money flowing, but they appear to be on a collision course on how to keep transportation projects of look. mark: phil mattingly is in washington. we have seen a lot in the last six years alone. are we any closer to a long-term deal at this time? ofl: if bipartisan groups senators have their way, yes. this is a proposal to extend the highway trust fund and the highway bill in general for two or three years. the original goal was six years. they graduated that back. the house has only passed a five-month pass. that is what they are go in for, but some light at the end of the title. they want that because they want to work towards a longer-term deal, because if you look at the state level, the impact of these short-term increases, in terms of projects that have been canceled, if you look at georgia, worth more than $715 million. arkansas, 130 projects at risk, worth $161 million.

publisher harpercollins has printed more than 200 million copies and is number one on the bestsellerince then, fans overseas will get a real taste of the animated series. , celebrated suds from the simpsons is going to fail in chile with the planned rollout throughout south america and possibly europe by early next year. u.s. spends much of the brew as companies -- as manufacturers say it will not be offered outside of universal studios. coming up, the landmark nuclear deal since oil prices tumbling. the latest details they are. after 9.5 years and 3 billion miles, nasa's horizons spacecraft will get a close-up of pluto. there is an app for that. checking u.s. stock index futures, dow, s&p lowered. you are watching "fbn:am" have your first look at earning markets and breaking news. ♪ sandra: welcome back. 5:30 a.m. on the east coast. let's get you in global markets. you're trading to the downside for the dax in germany for 10th of 1%. stock market futures trading pretty much a couple points. the broader markets, dow and s&p lower right now. crude oil prices taking a decisive town, fa

it is the most preorder the book in harpercollins history and most preorder book on amazon.com sinceharry potter book came out, which was in 2007. so for a perspective, this is twice the run of the last "game of thrones" book and two thirds bigger than the last "hunger games is quote book. ark: we are talking about sequel, but sales of "to kill a mockingbird" is still impressive as well. years on, there are 40 million copies out there in the world. the initial run was only 5000 copies back in 1960 compared to the 2 million today. it has had 55 years to accumulate all of those sales and that has been a boon to harper lee, who is still alive. 89 years old and retired. she's eating royalties every single day. every day, $9,000 goes back to her in royalties. -- the first half of 2000 9 1.7 million dollars. about $3.2 million every year and she's sitting pretty. mark: this is interesting because the story i have read goes her attorney looked in a safe deposit box and found this sequel underneath a whole bunch of pages of other stuff. if the person had not looked in the safe deposit box, t

>> on july 14th harpercollins is publishing the second novel from harvard b, author of tacoma mockingbird. the second book will be released 55 years after the pulitzer prize-winning first novel was published. many bookstores are marking the occasion by offering special programming and operating hours. here is a look at what some bookstores have scheduled. on monday july 16th and nationwide barnes and noble locations will be hosting public readings of to kill a mocking bird. in north carolina, raleigh books will screen the film adaptation of to kill a mocking bird and the following morning at 7:00 a.m. to sell the book accompanied by coffee and biscuits. carmichael bookstore in louisville, kentucky will be opening early at 8:00 a.m. july 14th offering the book for sale along with complementary biscuits and tea. downers grove illinois, anderson's bookshop posting a book release party monday evening that includes copies of the book for sale at midnight. and harvard bookstore in cambridge, massachusetts will be staying open until midnight providing customers with their first chance to purchas

harpercollins they are keeping it pretty tight. who is the reviewer. >> it's the books themselves independents finding that match and who should review the buck. it's who might read elsewhere in the book of the viewing world. >> host: when the staff meets what is your editorial staff meeting? >> guest: we need rather rarely. this is an informal place into so we are having in formal meetings all the time and i would say that it's fun. there's a reason the javascript and because everyone here at the book review and no matter what role they play as an opinionated reader and someone that enjoys and relishes having opinions about books so there was a bit of debate and sometimes disagreements but there's also a lot of humor. we take what we do seriously that we have a lot of fun while we are doing it. >> host: what is the purpose of an editorial meeting? >> guest: we will meet with them as a small group usually once every week or two to discuss the book that editor thinks should be reviewed and think about the ones that he or she thinks

i work at harpercollins. his boss is brian murray and they are both wonderful leaders that don't through typewriters or computers across the room and i previously worked for jean friedman who would say what is more demonstrative in terms of affectionate somebody that would hug you when she sees you but still very strong leadership and i think that you can be a bad leader as a man or woman, but i would agree with you especially if you are trying to manage a family or a business you have to learn and get a busy person a task and they will get it done quickly and i tend to think that women can make decisions extremely quickly. >> great. let's go to the next question. how did you build your leadership skills? >> i feel that i've been incredibly lucky to work in the trade book publishing. and you have both come into publishing firm clearly different sectors with very different gender balance is. i don't think that it's just random house and penguin which have been at the two faces. it's generally true in the publi

. >> this coming tuesday july 14th harpercollins is publishing the second book from author harper lee, in 200746 years. .. [applause] >> harper lee's beautiful book is a meditation on family human complex complexity and themes of live. the novel became an instant classic and earned her a pulitzer prize. her work enco

. >> the publisher, harpercollins, no relation to harper lee, putting this book out this week.the "wall street journal" had an excerpt. "the new york times" had a review. apparently finch is a much different character than in "mockingbird." what's your opinion? >> in the book it says ate kiss thinks. alabama was a state that would have rather closed the public schools than integrate them. this is the climate in which the book appears. this is what's going on in the novel. a truly liberated white southern man wasn't something you would find in these small towns or across the state. so atticus in the book reflects the time and reflects the culture of the time. >> something suggested on twitter, maybe this is a more honest accurate real portrait. >> it's in keeping with the way people were in alabama at that time. there are other parts of the book that in which you can see the old atticus or of "to kill a mockingbird" on display. it's the wonderful, father-dear relationship. they do argue, but it is a real family. >> some people are saying they're not going to read the new book be

>> on july 14th harpercollins is publishing the second novel from harvard b, author of tacoma mockingbird. the second book will be released 55 years after the pulitzer prize-winning first novel was published. many bookstores are marking the occasion by offering special programming and operating hours. here is a look at what some bookstores have scheduled. on monday july 16th and nationwide barnes and noble locations will be hosting public readings of to kill a mocking bird. in north carolina, raleigh books will screen the film adaptation of to kill a mocking bird and the following morning at 7:00 a.m.

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harpercollins is calling it its fastest seller in history selling 1.1 million copies in the u.s.s completed before her pulitzer prize winning "to kill a mockingbird." set in the same town 20 years later. >> the instagram website is taking a page out of the mobile version. sharing social network adding a search feature. users will be able to search user accounts just like smartphone. it now has more than 300 million monthly active users. >> well, they're calling it the reboot suit campaign. smithsonian seeking half a million dollars in donations to help restore neil armstrong's moon landing space suit the won he wore on the moon 46 years ago. taken off display nine years ago because of its deteriorating condition. the goal is to have it back on display for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. this is the first ever crowd funding campaign. >> we need -- this they think is not being taken care of? not even just american history but this is earth history, if you will. we're not taking care of this thing. >> we've got four years to take care of it. so. >> it's deteriorateded. >>

now my publisher, harpercollins, is hung up on... >> 17. >> the number 17, solutions. i told them, "i either have a lot less or a lot more solutions, but if you want 17, ok." >> so let's talk about changing the system through civic engagement. and that's really at the core of your 17 solutions. >> yeah, exactly. >> so the case in point i want to talk about is mine. >> yes. >> i ran for the palo alto city council in 2004. and in taking a stand against campaign financing, i refused to take any monetary donations from anybody. >> oh, my god. thank you very much. >> so... [applause] so in doing so, i had to then develop a grassroots organization. and i did win a seat on the city council. so thereafter, i won, and nothing has changed. so in subsequent city council races, palo alto, bay area, those running for city council, they're out raising a bunch of money, going to people getting the donations. so what did i do wrong? >> you mean because you didn't win the votes on city council? >> i won. i won the election, but i didn't change the way people are running for elections,

i also have a book coming out with harpercollins called "drawing blood."rian: why did you go to gaza? molly: i was in palestine for a literary festival. i hadn't planned to go to gaza and then i met a journalist who walked me through the bureaucratic process by which a journalist can go there. because you know, it is under blockade, so it is difficult to visit right now. and i had the opportunity, and so i went. brian: where were you in gaza? molly: i was staying in gaza city. brian: what did you see? molly: the piece i did was about a suburb of gaza city that was very close to israel and was completely flattened by israel. during "operation protective edge." i saw a level of decimation that i'd never seen outside of the one-day i went to syria. in fact, it was almost more serious. more thorough. because, in syria, the decimation is done primarily by bombing campaigns. there's bombs, then there are tank shells, and bulldozers. so it was just flat. the whole neighborhood was gone. you saw people living in ruined houses, surrounded by the smashed rubble of t

analyst and he says that this could translate into $30 million for news corp., the parent company of harpercollinserg reporting says that could push as close as $40 million in tickets sold out and it looks like it will. for comparison, the "divergent" series -- i do not know if you watch the movies for that. [laughter] it is similar to "the hunger games." that book help news corp. publishing division by 82% to $53 million in one quarter alone. this could be a big boon for news corp.. matt: obviously "to kill a mockingbird" is still a big seller itself. erik: it is 55 years for "go set a watchmen." ramy: it has given royalties to the author of $9,000 a day. to this day, she is 89 years old. she is retired and living and in -- in a nursing home. matt: think it she is retired -- think god she is retired. ramy: she raked in 1.7 million -- $1.7 million. she breaks royalties in every year. she happens to be set. if you get a single first edition copy of "to kill a mockingbird," you can get $20,000 for that. so many numbers and so many superlatives. matt: it is fascinating the whole back story. i recomme

. >> host: publisher harpercollins it was a real research would. 've .. george stephanopoulos' name did not come up in your research. he admitted to contributing $75,000 to the foundation. and the first interview you did was on abc with george stephanopoulos. >> guest: you're right. i knew he would be aggressive, bum i got a lot of aggressive questioning, chris wallace was very tough. andrea mitchell was very tough. frank sees know at cnn, so i don't mind tough questions. the problem i had with stephanopoulos was the interview that he conducted had the audience known and had i nope he was an active clinton foundation donor and that he had appeared at that least seven clinton foundation events in recent years, clearly he has a connection in some sort of affinity for this organization. think the interview would have been seen in a very, very different context. what he essentially did in the interview -- you're right the very first one -- he tried to frame it as can i had not proved any criminal misconduct so is there anything to see in to me that's a ridicu

. >> this coming tuesday tuesday july 14 harpercollins is publishing the 2nd book from arthur properly. in 200-0746 years after winning the pulitzer prize for to kill a mockingbird harper lee received the presidential medal of freedom from president george w. bush. harper lee. [applause] >> harper lee's beautiful book is a meditation of family committeeman complexity, and some of the great themes of american life. to kill a mockingbird helped focus the nation on the turbulent struggle for equality. and i we will be given us an american classic and enter a pulitzer prize. half a century after publication her work continues to captivate knew readers who encounter compelling power for the 1st time. the united states are as harper lee for outstanding contributions to the great literary tradition of america. [applause] ?-question-mark the upcoming release book tv is airing programs about harper lee throughout the weekend. visit our website for air dates and times. >> book tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> more novels. i have re