1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,660 If you think the six companies that control all of media are bad, wait until you learn about the 2 00:00:04,660 --> 00:00:10,180 five companies that basically control all of book publishing. And I started to look into this after 3 00:00:10,180 --> 00:00:16,580 I learned that Ghislaine Maxwell's father, Robert Maxwell, attempted to but ultimately failed to 4 00:00:16,580 --> 00:00:23,140 merge with McGraw-Hill. And since I have this book published in 2002, because now we know about this, 5 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:27,880 it really piqued my interest. So the first thing that I saw was Maxwell's company was called 6 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:33,140 Macmillan Inc. So I said, oh, one of the big five publishing houses. But that was wrong. 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:38,760 Macmillan is a different company privately owned out of Germany. It was started by this family, 8 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:46,060 specifically George. And according to Wikipedia, then you have Penguin Random House controlled by 9 00:00:46,060 --> 00:00:51,980 this private company out of Germany, which at one point was ran by this guy. And according to 10 00:00:51,980 --> 00:00:56,780 Wikipedia, anyway, the company did a whole investigation into this and they say the 11 00:00:56,780 --> 00:01:02,120 entire thing is exaggerated. And Wikipedia is not exactly committed to the truth. But everyone 12 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:08,060 always talks about Operation Paperclip. And I'm like, who's publishing your books? Speaking of which, 13 00:01:08,140 --> 00:01:14,100 the next company is the Hatchet Book Group. And they're controlled by France. So three of the five 14 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:19,140 companies are privately owned out of Germany and France. And we all see how the Olympics are going. 15 00:01:19,140 --> 00:01:25,560 Our two American companies are Simon & Schuster and HarperCollins. The latter is controlled by 16 00:01:25,560 --> 00:01:31,840 News Corp. So Rupert Murdoch, the owner of Fox News, and the former Simon Schuster is controlled by 17 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:38,460 Paramount Global. So Viacom. So the same companies that control media. And of course, if you look 18 00:01:38,460 --> 00:01:44,160 deeper, they're actually owned by Vanguard and BlackRock. So France, Germany, Rupert Murdoch, 19 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:50,000 and BlackRock control the majority of books printed in America. But the answer, as always, the way we 20 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:56,180 beat these megacorporations is to support good companies. Companies like Castellia House. And 21 00:01:56,180 --> 00:02:01,340 okay, this one's out of Europe. But I just really like that they have a moral alternative to Marvel 22 00:02:01,340 --> 00:02:06,080 because parents need good options. And they publish authors that I like. And then of course, 23 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:11,140 there's Classical Learner Publishing, which I run. And we publish my books on how information is 24 00:02:11,140 --> 00:02:16,940 controlled, our rights, healthy eating, how money and science can corrupt systems, and much more. 25 00:02:16,940 --> 00:02:22,200 As well as historical audiobooks as part of the Restoring History Project. And I started my own 26 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:27,360 publishing company because I didn't want to be reliant on Amazon. Because we have to build our 27 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:33,100 own systems, we can't just complain. But Amazon is a great place for new authors to get started. 28 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:39,400 Authors like my 14-year-old student, K.F. Barrett, who just self-published her third book. And this is 29 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:44,560 the type of thing that every one of us should absolutely support. And when your kids read her book and 30 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:50,440 they see what their peer was capable of, it will inspire them to do similar things. In fact, 31 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:55,660 so many of her classmates who read her book asked about the publishing process that she's now putting 32 00:02:55,660 --> 00:03:01,900 together a course for us to teach them how to become published authors. And this is how we win. 33 00:03:01,900 --> 00:03:06,840 So check out Castellia House, Classical Learner Publishing, Royalty and Rough Waters, and my private 34 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:12,920 homeschool community if you want your kid educated in a culture of independence, freedom, and winning. 35 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:14,980 ClassicalLearner.com.