mr. gibson, up on your shelf here el narco: inside mexico's criminal insurgency. >> well, ian grillo who is the author has gone inside the drug insurgency in mexico and has interviewed everybody involved from the gang leaders through the police, and he tells the inside story of what is happening in mexico, the extraordinary upheaval in their society. um, and because he tells it from all angles, you come to understand who is responsible for it. the government bears a responsibility as well as the gangs, and it has a huge effect on the unite because drugs, obviously, from mexico are all over the united states. >> "american crisis." >> phil fowler is a distinguished professor of history at northeastern, and we were talking a few years ago, and he said he wanted to write a book about the famous speech george washington gave to his troops at newberg in 1783 right after the war had supposedly ended, but the war actually hadn't ended, and i said to bill i thought he ought to write a larger story about that from the years 1781-'83. we think it ended when cornwallis surrenders to george washingto

mr. gibson, give us a snapshot of bloomsbury press. >> well, bloomsbury u.s.a. on the adult site has three imprints. the main bloomsbury and print any press imprint of walker and company. lounsbury the main imprint does a lot of fiction, food, national history and sports related titles. bloomsbury press does the history, science and current affairs and the walker list does history and science as well, self-improvement books and a lot of language books. >> are you selling more e-books than you are hardback books at this point? >> not more, but we saw a great many. e-book sales have grown dramatically in the last six months. they have for every publisher. so we are selling many more than we were at this time last year and it's become a hugely significant part. >> how would you like to see the google book settlement and? >> happily. you know, i don't know that i want to comment as a publisher. making books available. it's also critically important that authors and publishers are compensated. >> george gibson is the publisher of bloomsbury press. thank you for a few