it was an interesting transition with us at to simon & schuster like bob woodward or other superstar authors mary higgins clark who was succeeding both hardcover and paperback and jackie collins and to inherit a legacy to apply a massmarket techniques but shortly after i started i became in charge when they were under one management and that is when what is called career development start and author on paperback been billed the audience then when they were a lot -- large enough then we would published in hardcover and we were building an audience for the author at the same time the author was perfecting their writing style and talent. it was a happy time and a good time and a thrilling time for us. >> host: you mention the transition going into paperback now people start to do electronic books. >> it is interesting to me fortunately or unfortunately sitting on the sidelines while the transition plays out but it is my choice but what i observe is great similarities between how the paperback evolves in the '60s and '70s and changed the business. and i think electronic publishing will do

in digit digital syncing or a ploy to get us to buy more apple paraphernalia. icloud will simply float, it's claimed from one device to the other. dan simon was at the launch and tells us why steve jobs hopes this develop element have a silver lining for apple. >> the icloud unveiling from steve jobs is geared towards people who have multiple devi s devices. if you have an iphone, you probably have an apple computer and an ipad, managing information from one device to the next requires one of these, a syncing cable. apple wants to change that with the icloud. >> we will move the device into the cloud. all these new devices have communications built into them, they can all talk to the cloud whenever they want. so now if i get something on my iphone, it is sent up to the cloud immediately. let's say i take some pictures with it those pictures are in the cloud, they are now pushed down to my devices completely automatically. >> reporter: icloud will work with e-mail, contacts and your calendar but also work with music and photos. say you take a picture with your iphone that will be sent up to the cloud and sent to all your devices, or if you downlo

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conversation which is a word i don't like to use, but the confers is down in washington at such a level i'm persuaded nobody was paying attention or they don't do what simon eluded to which is to pay attention to facts. i'm not talking about proposing an alternative ideology equally distant from the facts and history relived through. it's hard to live through the years and draw the conclusion the tea party draws. they do. it's very hard to live through the past couple years and believe in the libertarianism of rand paul. i interviewed him today for our show, a pretape for the show. self-promotion is something you learn in the commercial business. here he is very smart, but he believes the libertarian stuff that he's been spouting for years. when i say we need to revisit our history, i really believe that. how can we be where we are today because i fear as a society we're about to go over the precipice once again. that was all pream l. let me frame the conversation this way. i had an absolutely spectacular time as attorney general and governor too broof as it may have been, because there's nothing better than being in the arena, hence the name of the tv sh

hard cover publishers at the same time were realizing that they had to get into the paperback business. [audio difficulty] confusing but interesting transition going on. with us at simon & schuster, people like bob woodward were superstar authors. we had mary higgins clark who was succeeding in both paperback and hard cover. we had jackie collins who was a superstar at the time. we had, you know, i sort of inherited a legacy of simon & schuster authors then that by applying mass market techniques we were able to take to new levels. shortly after i started, i became in charge of the whole what we call consumer publishing groups, so simon & schuster and pocketbooks were under one management. and that's when we were really able to sort of what we called career development. we would start an author out in paperback, build an audience at a point where the paperback audience was large enough, we would then -- [inaudible] we were building an audience for the author, and at the same time the author was perfecting their writing style and talent. it was a happy time, it was a good time, and it was a fairly easy time for us. >> so you mentioned the whole, i guess, transition, yo

andy serkis, who played gollum in lord of the rings, how to rough my character up at one point, or it was a character, he used me. he said, "simonhter ] and then andy serkis is going, "you mean like this?" and i was going -- and i was laughing like i was being tickled because i was being, you know, basically man-handled by the creator of "e.t." and gollum. >> jimmy: and gollum as well. yeah, yeah. >> how did this happen? >> jimmy: it was the weirdest in my whole life. it is so wild. >> yeah. >> jimmy: then, i mean, "star trek," by the way, great job in "star trek." that was just phenomenal. [ cheers and applause ] >> yeah. thank you. >> jimmy: what an honor that is. >> amazing. >> jimmy: what an honor. did you get to meet any of the -- i know -- >> well -- >> jimmy: spock was walking around. >> yeah, spock was obviously -- leonard nimoy was in it. >> jimmy: oh, that's right. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: i'm assuming everybody calls him spock, right, i mean -- >> that's the weird thing. when i -- i have a scene with spock and kirk. they come down into the planet where i'm sort of marooned, and there's a scene where he's talking to me

at all right thank you very much for insight simon young daughter bella journalist thank you very much for joining us. now america's credit rating will be slashed from perfect selective default if it fails to pay its bills by the fourth of august the us national debt amounts to over fourteen trillion dollars at the moment and obama wants it to go even higher for more on this we're joined by ricardo young a host and analyst that voice of russia radio thank you very much for joining us so the lawmakers in washington are still seeking to raise the country's debt ceiling or can they simply add new digits to the debt board and basically continue borrowing indefinitely. well actually they're actually not talking at this point it's unfortunate but the republican side of the party has decided to basically walk out of the talks and what they're saying right now is that president obama needs to show leadership as he started his news conference today show leadership on this issue but even he is saying look we've got issues to take care of here we got to get back to the table and talk about this now most economists most analysts agree that at some point before august fourth the national debt ceiling w

to communicating online at work, yammer wants to be king. more than 70% of fortune 500 companies have now logged on. our silicon valley correspondent dan simon helps ushis all about. >> reporter: it's being called the facebook for business. silicon valley executive david saks, who helped revolutionize payments as a co-founder of paypal, wants to advance how we communicate at the office. three years ago, he launched yammer to bring social networking to the workplace. >> in every company i ever worked at, there's always this problem that you don't know what your co-workers are doing. so yammer is really born out of our own need for this product. >> reporter: so he built a site this allows employees to post things about work. 100,000 companies around the globe are now using it, from ebay to seven-11 to xerox. the information is secure and not for public consumption. >> we're very collaborative culture. i think it just enhanced that. >> reporter: caroline runs corporate marketing for polycom. she says yammer is replacing e-mail as the preferred way to communicate with co-workers. users may put up a work-related post or question and just like facebook, ot

simon schama. [applause] [applause] >> welcome. i didn't drink any of your water. >> you were thinking what the hell is he doing texting? you know, is he even going to look at us and say something to me? did they kindly tell you to turn your cell phones our? my favorite play was spamalot. ladies and gentlemen, i would like you to turn all of your cell cell phones on because the show is complete crap. you know? the reason that i'm looking at this, everyone, is it has on it right now the best thing ever written about spring. and you, class, are going to tell me who wrote it or else. and it's not me. but it's someone who is my kind of essay writing. before the shallow, before the daffy, and not much later than the snow drop, the common toad salutes the comes of spring after his other fashion which is to emerge from a hole in the grown where he as lain, buried since the previous autumn. and crawl as rapidly as possible towards the nearest suitable patch of water. something -- some kind of shutter in the earth. or perhaps merely a rise of few degrees in the temperature has told him it's time to wake up. although a fear toads appear to sleep around and miss out from

at high risk of cancer fueled by the hormone estrogen. >>> well, you told us what you wanted to see. here's your "choose the news" winner. dan simonlen computer back with a little help from a smart piece of software and his online friends. >> reporter: a burglar ransacked his apt and took his laptop. but joshua kaufman knew something the thief didn't. he had installed a security application called hidden. it secretly takes screen graphs, pin points the computer's location, and snaps photos. >> when you saw that first image pop up, what did you think? >> i was amazed and impressed that it was working. i never really tested it out so i didn't know if it was going to work or not. >> reporter: it worked. the app began streaming images of the man in possession of kaufman's laptop. he could view the images by logging in to his hidden app.com account on any computer. >> i was thinking this sucks. someone has my computer and is deleting all my stuff. nothing i can do about it. >> reporter: one moment he's in a car, shirtless in bed, or even sleeping on the couch. >> people sleep in front of their computers probably all the time, but they