motocross the 28 siam great fall i could dig it out. thank you very much. [applause] i would take your questions then i will be happy to sign a book. raise your hand. >> how did you get onto this story? what brought you to the issue yourself? >> i told you early i am a minister and i have been. my background is baptist. i am from each right michigan and my mother grew up in the church that he pestered in detroit michigan after this happened so i heard the name and what i remember saying he preached long messages for you would pack a lunch because he would preach a two-hour sermon. but one day with a chance encounter come i told somebody where i went two church. even though these things happened long before he said i would never go to that church because that is the pastor who killed the guy. i ask my mother and her the story. they did not know it completely and nobody talked about it. that was dr. norris who had a fight with somebody and killed the guy. i heard about as a teenager than steadied baptist history and came across his name as most well and devel

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internationally as far away as india, australia, china, and as you remember from the "king and i" siam. the play was seen by more people who read the book, although the book itself remained extremely popular, and in 1905, "new york times" said the two most popular books in america are the bible and uncle tom's cabin, and it it kept up a very, very steady presence. the play was seen regularly until about the 1950s and then spore ratically after that and it was recently a wonderful stages by alex rogue last fall at the metropolitan playhouse in the village. now, in many of those earlier plays, uncle tom was falsely protected as a stooped obedient old fool. that's partly where the uncle tom's stereotype came from. eva's death in those plays was frequently a scene in which the actress was roped in piano wire with a back up against angels and billowing clouds. one might think that's spectacle we defang the revolutionary themes and turn uncle tom's cabin into a laughable piece of harmless entertainment, but actually this didn't happen. after all, the play is always about race relations and t

publishing is a wonderful business and although today when i meet people for the first time in siam inthe book pushing business, they look at me like i have a terminal illness. are you okay? how are things going? i mean, you are actually still publishing books? i say yes come as a matter of fact we are. we had our best year ever in 2010. but what has changed is that we are publishing many more books than we used to because we are selling many fewer copies of the books that we publish. and this is one of the phenomenon that i will talk about in a minute. it's hard to imagine 10 years ago there were just 50,000 new books a year been published in the united states. five years ago, a ratcheted up to 180,000 new books a year. and that is one book every 30 seconds. last year, 1 million new books, approximately 1 million new books are published. so in 10 years, we've gone from 50,000 new books to 1 million. the vast majority of those, as you might imagine, i saw published. and companies like author solutions in indiana have purchased a lot of self-publishing businesses. and they actually do w