mr. patterson. it's made a world of difference and being able to make these kids feel empowered so that after they hear an author. >> they too made get a book and go home at that luck. that has been huge for us, really really cute so i personally want to thank you for allowing us to pursue that as well. i wanted now to open it up to some of you have there if any want to talk about your experiences in regard to some of the money that you may have gotten. do we have anyone in their audience who has received a grant? do we have a mic? >> i will talk loud enough. we use money to purchase books so we could start to do more events in the schools then it gave us the inventory to bring so the kids had a good choice. thank you very much mr. patterson. i wanted to make a comment to matt. beyond money the publicity -- publicity that we got was amazing because we haven't had the money to spend on it for a year and a half. not only did it go to bangor daily news which is mentioned in your flyer but it went to th

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mr. patterson will be there signing them for you. no. [laughter] but in any case, thank you all. and, mr. patherson, i want to thank you. -- patherson, this has been -- patterson, this has been amazing. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> our coverage of the annual publishing industry trade show, bookexpo america, continues. [inaudible conversations] >> host: "bad paper" is the name of the book, "chasing debt from wall street to the underworld." it's a new book coming out in fall of 2014. jakejake halpern is the author. mr. halpern, what is bad paper? >> guest: this world that exists just beneath the surface that we don't know about, so when we have credit card debt, or you don't play your gym bill for a certain period of time, the creditors sell this debt out for cents on the dollar. and then it's bought, sold, sometimes even stolen in this kind of financial underworld that exists. and when this paper and this particular story is about a parcel of this debt which they call paper, gets stolen, it becomes bad paper. and my book is about a banker, a former banker and a former a

mr. patterson has done something quite different, he announced some weeks ago that he was going to in facttony a million dollars to indie stores across the country. he has in fact already been giving out some of this money and therefore all kinds of things. he has been a strong supporter for a long time about programs that encourage kids to read, daycare kids to read at a young age. he often speaks about how terribly that wasn't his own family, about getting his son to read at a young age in wanted to spread the joy of reading to kids all across the country. mr. patterson has put his money where his mouth is and has been helping stores to all kinds of things, helping create programs with their school systems, doing outreach programs, policies stores be more competitive retail businesses. so we are thankful to jim patterson into sherman alexy. they are but two of many authors who i know how a great deal and feel they owe a great deal because it was those booksellers that helped launch their careers and they want to come back and figure out a way to pay the bookstores back and both of them h