[applause] >> for more on steven levy and his work, visit stevenlevy.com.spent we ask what are you reading this summer? here's what you have to say. >> tom allen is president and the american association of publishers, former congressman, democrat from maine. congressman allen, described if you would the state of the book industry as you see it today. >> well, exciting would be one where. i mean, it's a time of enormous transformation in this industry. primarily because of new technology and the movement of content from being ink on paper to digital. and so what's happening is that people have been able to take in, to read our material in a lot of different ways on a lot of different devices whatever they may be. and it's very exciting time because the industry is changing so fast. lots of opportunities and significant risks. >> are people reading less than it used to? >> i don't think so. i think in some ways that proliferation of the reader is leading them to read more. certainly people can be impulse buyers 24/7, or at least those hours when they are awa