what is that, mary rasenberger? >> organization started in 1912 that a was to represent coauthors interest copyright's, free-speech we have been doing the same thing for over 100 years we represent their interests than publisher is we just had up panel on contract initiatives where we are looking at the standard trade publishing agreement and asking questions if the terms are the same in the digital world. we have 9,000 members we provide services for our members legal services for authors and also agents and other members and we provide web site services helping them to build their web site you cannot not have a of web site if you have a book today it is fairly low cost in respect lot of time that we are the only group in the u.s. the represents all authors and we're trying to ensure that they can make a living today is getting harder and harder but we took a survey about one year ago where we found that the authors aren't making much money and is said income was down almost 30 percent it was a median income of 24,

. >> host: mary rasenberger, executive editor of the authors guild, thanks for joining us on booktv. >> guest: thank you very much. >> next on booktv, joshua cooper ramo, co-ceo of kissinger associates, talks about his latest book, "the seventh sense," with authors malcolm gladwell and jacob weisberg. [inaudible conversations] >> hello? hi. thank you, everybody, for coming. this is great. you know, as a writer for most of the last few months, i've been getting up every morning saying to my wife what if nobody reads the book, and i woke up this morning and said what if nobody comes? so it's very nice of all of you to come out tonight. the reality is we're fortunate to have with us tonight two friends of mine who, i think, will be more interesting and fascinating to many of you. jacob weisberg is the chairman and ceo of the slate group, longtime journalist, has recently published a book on ronald reagan that i can't recommend highly enough, particularly in today's political environment. and malcolm glad welshing everybody knows a writer -- gadwell, everybody knows a writer for the new