on my immediate left is a person and many of you will know, oren teicher the chief executive officer of the american booksellers association and the trade association for independent booksellers and he has been working working on that half of independent bookstores for more than 20 years. directly to his leftist michael tamblyn the president of the global e. reading and device companies that powers retail for national national bookstore chains and independents around the world. before joining he was founder and ceo of buk canada. directly to his left you will see john ingram. john is the chairman and ceo of ingram content group the world's largest distributor of physical and digital content. john also serves as the chairman of ingram industries board of directors and next to him you will see joyce meskis who is the owner and has been the owner and president of tattered cover bookstore is one of the great bookstores in america wanted donations nationally recognized independent bookstores since 1974. she has long been active in the american booksellers associati association. and then d

and it takes more books to sell more books so what oren teicher said to continue the dialogue to do something about its we have a long way to go. there is much more to keep us in business and healthy. >> can i just cannot resist saying we want to make books of all publishers equally available all the time. [applause] >> all books are available. [laughter] >> believe it or not to that is the time we had. think you for joining us. have a great show. thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> with americans, west they want to turn the sioux and cheyenne and by putting perot in turn and then into christian and barbers but sitting bull is not about to ben dover to scratch at the ground to make a living. and crazy horse will not surrender his pony their hunters and warriors. there is a crisis the stock market and people are losing their jobs there is 20 percent unemployment. it is tough times in america. they have to rev up the economy. he needs an economic stimulus package. but custer will provide it golden the black hills. the rumors persisted for years it is a reality there is

and it takes more books to sell more books so what oren teicher said to continue the dialogue to do something about its we have a long way to go. there is much more to keep us in business and healthy. >> can i just cannot resist saying we want to make books of all publishers equally available all the time. [applause] >> all books are available. [laughter] >> believe it or not to that is the time we had. think you for joining us. have a great show. thank you very much. [applause] >> i always knew there was a risk of the bohemian lifestyle and a ticket because whether it is an evolution toward a lot abhor i don't think it is but it helped a concentration helped from being bored and keep me awake in to enhance the moment and if i was asked again it is probably yes the would have quit earlier than to get away with the whole thing easy for me to say. it is irresponsible to say but the truth is that hypocritical that i would never touch the stuff if i didn't know because i did no. >> this soviet union in the system contained the seeds of its own destruction. many problems we saw at the end to begin

and it takes more books to sell more books so what oren teicher said to continue the dialogue to do something about its we have a long way to go. there is much more to keep us in business and healthy. >> can i just cannot resist saying we want to make books of all publishers equally available all the time. [applause] >> all books are available. [laughter] >> believe it or not to that is the time we had. think you for joining us. have a great show. thank you very much. [applause] least, silence your electronic devices for the audience and for our friends at home. today's panel is called connecting authors and readers. we'll be discussing how publishers, writers, the media and booksellers help readers discover new books and authors. without further ado, i'll introduce our panel and then let them tell you a little bit about what they do. to my right is tarin rhodeer, the associate director of -- [inaudible] she manages a boston-based team. her best selling authors include paul tuft, temple grandin and justin torres. she was previously based in washington, d.c. at island press, and she has an mfa