you re watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of books every weekend. well, as 2011 comes to a close, we thought we d take this opportunity to lock back at the year in publishing, look at the publishing industry as well as some of the best sellers of the past year. sarah is the news editor of publisher s marketplace. start by giving us a little bit of a snapshot of publishing industry in 2011. if you had to write a paragraph or two on what the publishing industry did this year. guest: oh, my goodness. where do even begin. i think the best way to look at what happened in the publishing industry this year is the increasing rise of digital books, digital market share, and also a tremendous transformation of the physical book market. for example, i guess a really good way to look at it is through the almighty prism of amazon. for example, amazon introduced just a couple months ago some new devices, for example, the kindle fire, it s priced at $199, and just based off of preorde