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
derivatives and tended to shy away from them and politicians basically didn t care about them because everybody seemed happy. i think people convince themselves that enron, world,, some of the others were world office. worldcom put their books on accounting. kozlowski spend money like there was no tomorrow. there was a certain amount of that problem is fixed the congress passed in law, but then there s this whole other world over here that was similar connected in a sense with things like the mortgage-backed securities market, but in the 2000 time period the indicated to the collapse there was a huge amount of momentum pushing the market forward. president of the united states for everybody should own a home, congress with republicans and democrats were happily saying yeah let s make it easier to own homes and let s not to kill gatt how it s happening whether people can afford it and whether they are lying on their loan applications. the system got, in that area, got almost l
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you just follow the comings and goings of the movers and shakers at the white house and on capitol hill. i ve been talking to people who have been out of work for the longest time, and whose families are really suffering missing mortgage payments, missing credit card and order loan deadlines, missing meals. one man who was out of work for a year, is married, and father of a 5-year-old told me what it was like last christmas when the family put up a christmas tree, but had no presents to put under it. this was a man in his 30s in ohio in 2011, but he sounded like a figure from one of those old depression e-ray hollywood movies. even though we were not able to give gifts, and everything, we still had each other and a roof over our heads, so we were blessed in that regard. americans are learning in this hideous economic environment to be thankful for small favors. there was a period when this man was so far behind in bills, he would go to downtown columbus as often as he could t
be the result of more generation would be less environmentally friendly. but typically it doesn t get to that. it s a long settlement process where as the gentleman have a specific requirement you have to consider offsets for shutting down a plant? not that i m aware of. that s one of the things we need to talk about more is when you don t approve a road improvement you should have to offset the pollution caused by the congestion rather than always we look at the emissions that happen for construction, but the no project option and the environmental and economic and social the impact of that need to be considered but the environmental impact is 1i find a real hypocrisy you want to have offsets for the emissions cost for building the project but nobody who s stopping the project has to account for the environmental pollution caused buy not finishing the project and i yield back. the gentleman from deily, mr. sculley says recognize. thank you mr. chairman. i appreci