but when you're dealing with someone like ian mccune or peter taylor or anne taylor, you're teaming with somebody who can write and you want to get that across to the reader. >> host: here, the really stupid question here million dollar question, what's the importance of books? >> guest: of books generally? >> host: yes. >> guest: well, that is a big question. not a stupid one. books are the repositories of centuries, millenia, of human culture. that's where we put it. everything goes into the pains of books venally. even science -- eventually, even science goes into books. people -- this is not a reading nation in the sense of a book-reading nation. i'm sorry to say we're not a book-reading nation in the way england is or france. we do have many readers, as i've known from the wonderful response i had to my farewell column, but books are not a big part of american culture they way they are in the british culture, but their still there, and if you're in the business, reading books or writing them, if you're in show business, you -- write your own autobiography. whose the guitarist for th

9.13 million and one, the number of viewers who watched "peter pan live" last week if you count christopher walken. [ laughter ] 25, the age taylorturn this week. the same taylor swift who has received seven grammy awards, 15 american music awards, 11 country music association awards, seven academy of country music awards, and 12 billboard music awards. 28, the age that a late night writer ben worhite turned this week. the same ben worhite who earlier today bought a slice of pizza, dropped it on floor, washed it off in the bathroom, and ate it. [ cheers and applause ] doing good, ben. we're proud of you, you're doing good. 21, the number of days until 2015. also 21, the number of days until you get that new gym membership as per tradition. [ laughter ] 22, the number of days until you cancel that new gym membership. [ laughter ] 23, the number of days until they tell you, you can't actually cancel your membership according to the contract you signed. [ laughter ] 24, the number of days until you fake your own death, thus releasing you from your gym membership. [ laughter ] 25, the number of days until you attend your own funeral

peter teal with sarah lacy and laura seidel. for instance selling a good cup of coffee on a saturday morning, here's founder james freeman in conversation with reporters martin giles and colleen taylor. he serves each and every day at blue bottle coffee coffee so fine and carefully crafted, some would say so fussy. it's drawn all kinds of attention and money from some of san francisco's most rich and powerful. recently a who's who poured their money into blue bottle including founders of instagram and twitter. $25 million in all. and to think blue bottle's founder, james freeman, didn't go to business school. his formal training is playing the clarinet. thank you for joining us. what you going to do with all of that money? >> we're going to build some shops. >> how many shops? >> i don't know. we're going to build some facilities and the goal is not to be bigger but to be better. >> you've anticipated one of my biggest questions. i've asked this of virgin airlines hampton hotel. you take any quality brand, i think you can only get so big before you can't get better. >> i think that might be true. but -- so the question is how big is that? i mean embedded in all of those questions is

taylor swift and everyone for standing up. it begs the question. have older artists who have made millions and millions of dollars like garth brooks or the beatles or peter, they have decided not to let their catalogs be streamed on spotify. should these older artists be taking stronger stands? they have more leverage. >> clearly, if the beatles as an entity were to come out it would clearly raise the conversation. taylor swift is one of the most popular singers on spotify. this is her audience. when she takes a stand, it really resonates throughout the world. i think the music industry and artists in particular should say we don't want to repeat the mistake we made 15 years ago with itunes. they lost control of the content and lost the ability to monetize the content in a digital world. now they see the business going to streaming. before this gets too big, we want to have a big seat at the table. what is an equitable split of the fees? equitable"e term " that's up for interpretation. paul sweeney, thank you so much. we have much more ahead, including telling you about the oklahoma billionaire who lost half of his fortune in the last three months. he is