little bit of a snapshot of the publishing industry in 2011, if you had to write a paragraph or two on what the publishing industry did this year. oh, my goodness. where to even begin. i think the best way to look at what happened to the publishing industry this year is the increasing rise of digital books, digital market share and also just 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 of months ago some new devices, for example, the kindle fire which is their answer to the tablet market. it s priced at $199, and, um, just based off of preorders and new shipments alone various analysts have projected that it will reach number two in sales behind apple s ipad which, of course, is priced at the lowest end at $499. now, the thing, too, with amazon s kindle fire is that it s also in direct competition with barnes & noble which we