. >> host: and, sarah weinman you talked about the publishers who settled with doj. are they the outliers, are they looked down upon by the rest of the dust bec t sed? ueitar s tharryidea a to why these three publishers have settled, largely to do with the expense of litigating. publishers may be beholden t their shareholders and to lger coorataim,utey't timne rrc thne enll d io oll litigating a case that will likely go on for years. in fact this may make the google book settlement in terms of time and money look like child's play. >> ht: sahei, e lk sallis re a bookexpo america, the industry's convention, and we've talked about e-books and where they fit when it comes to the revenues. overall, what percentage of reve fblrs om okgh n >>st ye in adblng houses and i'll colloquially use the term the big six and other larger and mid-sizepublishing houses e-books are a huge and growing revenue stream so, for emple, when theaap as nrsor far stti i bve boal february were about 92.5 million that they tracked, and that made up about 26% of overall trade sales. a number of the

number of other political books it should be dropping very same. >> host: we have been talking with sarah weinmanwho is the news director of publishers marketplace. if you're interested in following the publishing news, the web site, publishers marketplace.com, and if you want to follow sarah on twitter, she is a constant twitterer. sarah w. >> guest: i tried to keep it simple by getting on twitter very early so i was fortunate to have a few characters as have 134 characters left to say what i needed to say. >> host: thank you for being on booktv. as you can see they're allowed -- large crowds at the annual of publishers convention in new york city at the javits center. booktv on c-span2 is on location. trying to learn some of the new upcoming titles and we are joined by sublive who is -- will weisser who is the circa publisher of sentinel which is part of the penguin group. guess who we are conservative political imprint and havoc citing stuff coming up starting with senator marco rubio of florida. his book is coming up on june 19. it's a memoir called an american son, and i think everybody will