>> and susan weinberg, right behind you is clive and we want to introduce him. >> what was your role. >> hello. >> what was your role

says we want to offer this book that way and for many of them you can buy it today. >> host: susan weinberg, how important is the e-book to our business? >> guest: it shows growth and innovation and continue reading but yet in another form or format. the e-book right now are a small percentage but the potential and how they add to the choice is that when and how they want to read a book is very significant bellsouth think in a world where everything happens so quickly we can get them out and the e-book format faster than a brand book if there is a book that is time sensitive like george soros book on the financial crisis we released it as a e-book it took five or six weeks to get the physical book but the message was so time sensitive we let readers have and as the e-book first. >> host: what is this schedule of events? >> guest: we're showing all the things today which is the second full day of publication it will end at 4:00 p.m.. we had the book website created right here add to the booth, we created a reading group guy. this is a great meeting where we have librarians and company readin

susan weinberg and goliath, thank you very much. >>> dan baum, former staff writer for the new yorker, traveled to new orleans in 2005 to cover the aftermath of hurricane katrina. his book chronicles the lives of nine residents. the junior league of richmond hosted this event at st. christopher's school in virginia. it's 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you very much for coming. i'm from new jersey. i talk fast. i mean no disrespect by it and i am going to go through a lot of stuff and i would really appreciate if you have questions that you'd not hold them until i am done beating my gums. if the question occurs to you put your hand up and stop me because that works much better one linear story with beginning and middle and end with one cast of characters. i covered the flood and marlene's for the new yorker and i had never been to new orleans before. i had been there for one night to interview somebody and fly out. i've been a reporter a long time. and i was sent down there right after the levees broke and, you know, when you are a reporter you get very focused on the event, the f-ing

. >> susan weinberg, publisher of public affairs books, what's on your summer reading list? >> for the first book is a real change of pace because republish nonfiction and rita lot but i hope this summer i get to read the master, it is a book that i know the publisher and she gave me at half the issue gives me a copy of books and very often

>> susan weinberg publisher of publicaffairs books. what is on your summer reading list? >> the first book is a change of pace because we publish nonfiction and i read a lot of nonfiction but i would hope this summer to read the master by colm toibin. it's a book i know the publisher and she gave me a copy and gives me a copy very often. we trade books and talk about each other's books but when she found out i hadn't gotten around to that when she was quite vexed and i thought it publisher believes in it that much i have to read it. i also am just read and am going to read another one of our books this summer that we had to have to books coming out that are wonderful books of the islamic world. one is called destiny disrupted, the history of the world through islamic eyes, and it is by tamim ansary, and it's a wonderful meredith history of we know the western narrative, ancient greeks, this is the islamic world narrative and then out in the 19th century they can to calash so tragically and i loved every part of that and read the book and recommended it to my reading grip