sarah weinman, thank you again for coming on. we appreciate it spent its always a pleasure, peter. thank you. spent if we could, start with the google settlement.@@ where do we st@and with that,@@@ what are the issue is?@@@ >> i think the best way to look@ at the current status of the@@@@ google books case is@ that we're going right back where we@@@@@@ started from about seven years ago.@@@@@@@@@ so judge denny chin at lee@@ agreed that the authors guild were one of the places did have@ to stand and making it a class@@ action suit.@@@@ now, what has happened is that everything was going along for@@ several years, and judge chen@@@ had actually left. @e got promoted to the appeals@@ court, but this is one of his@@@ last outstanding cases, and he decide that the original settlement was not good so he threw it out.@@@ and everybody had to start over if they had to re- file the@@ suit. be a ap decided to file in a different way from the authors guild. there were rumors of these separate settlement is now the authors guild has standing, it will essentially keep chugging along, and it's

bring it back so maybe there will be more it experiment with timing and form at -- format >>host: sarah weinman amazon change the publishing world? >> absolutely. a retailer that can market directly to its customer. it keeps the customer in mind first. if there is a problem where the amazon kendall breaks something does not shipwright they answer their needs right away. the big publishing news out of amazon when they acquired digital rights to the james bond novels and i believe those will be beast in the next few weeks. penguin had the 10 year license that is up. now they wanted to try something different and north america. so low these iconic books the is classic movies, so that the more exciting ways? people will pay close attention is amazon launches this fall galleys of books but not published until the fall. the book is nine amazon publishing. then it movies released so independent bookstores and brick and mortar retailers could order print editions but what have been with barnes & noble have come out to there will not stop the titles they have the direct way of selling the books. it make

weinman who is in his director of publishers marketplace. interested in following public news? the web site publishers marketplace.com and if you want to follow sarah on twitter, she is a constant twitterer. sarah w. matt? sarah w? >> i tried to keep it simple by getting twitter very early so i was fortunate to have as few characters as possible so i could have 134 characters less to say what i had to say. >> thank you for being on booktv. >> thank you so much, peter. a pleasure as always. coming up next on booktv, after words with guest hosts phyllis bennis of the institute for policy studies. this week middle east expert, fawaz gerges and his latest book, "obama and the middle east" in which the international relations professor examines the obamas administrations response to the arab spring and its engagement with various middle east nations. >> guest: it's so good to be here with you fawaz. i'm delighted to see your new book. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: we are here now in what appears to be thick coming onto the end of the fourth year of either the first-term or the term of the obama administration there is a great deal of disap