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to the first public event here in 2012. we had about 70 last year, so i expect to invite any feedback in your future. a lot of longtime colleagues, also terrific to see any faces. it's a real understatement to say that bipartisanship is going to be a challenging state of the next several months. so we are happy to have many friends as we can get. today's discussion is about leadership and i'm really thrilled to have tom daschle and trent lott with it he adapted a vital role in creating and shaping or cure the bipartisan policy satchel over the last five years. they also know about th...

kindle fire which is their answer to the kindle market. the new shipments alone various analysts have projected that it will reach number two in sales behind apple's ipad which is priced at the lowest in debt for 99. the thing with amazon's kindle fire is that it's also in direct competition with farms and mobile which we will get to a little bit of a second. but amazon also introduced some other lower-cost kindle devices. kindle is by amazon's reckoning the number one best-selling e-reader and it's also the reckoning in readers might as well. they aren't going to tell us exactly how...

>> martyr wagner is the author of this new library of congress book, the illustrated timeline of the civil war. >> there's much more to the newly designed c-span.org. more video with 11 figure choices making it easy for you to watch today's events live and recorded. more features. you can quickly scroll through all the programs on the c-span networks and receive an e-mail alert when your program is scheduled to air. more access are more popular series and programs like "washington journal," booktv and american history tv. more availability. user and the channel finder t...

they explain what those are next. this is about an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] >> we're going to have some real substance, but we're also going to have some great theater, so i hope that in the spirit of theater you will all turn off your cell phones, your pagers, your phones and everything else that's electronic and that can be -- i know our speakers will appreciate it, and i'd like to see that happen. so i'm jessica einhorn, i'm dean of science, and i thank you all for joining us this evening. it's my pleasure to welcome you, the students, the alumni, the friends and...

>> 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 publi...