04/16/04 00:00 | 197 W Day 4: San Francisco
We started the day at the studios of LinkTV doing our first major remote broadcasts. In the first show we talked to Van Jones of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights about child prisons, plus the interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal. We then visited book stores and talked to the staff, many of whom were very excited about the book. We asked one of the staff people at Stacey's, an independent book store in downtown San Francisco, if publishers had to pay to get prime positioning of their book in their store (this is common practice at the large chain book stores). He laughed at the idea. “We're an independent book store,” he replied. “We feature the books that we like and think our customers will enjoy. We don't feature what the publishers pay us to do.” We were glad to see our book made the cut and was featured by the staff.That night, we did an event at A Clean Well Lighted Place, another San Francisco indy book store. Some 400 people packed the place to hear us read and participate in a Q&A. Thank you San Francisco!