ms. weinman, if you would start by telling us, giving us just a little bit of a snapshot of the publishing industry in 2011 come if you 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 in the publishing industry this year is the increasing rise of digital books, digital market share, and also gives 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 which is their answer to the tablet market. it is priced at $199, and just based off of pre-orders 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. the thing with amazon's kindle fire is that it's also interact competition with barnes & noble which we will get to in a bit. but amazon also introduced some other lower cost

ms. weinman, thank you for joining from the new york studio. >> guest: thanks for having me on again, peter. mark talks about the computer worm that injected more

ms. weinman, thank you for joining us from our new york studio. >> thanks so much for having me on again, peter. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2, 48 hours of authors and books every weekend. >> recently, "the new york times" released their top ten best books of 2011. here are the five nonfiction titles.

ms. weinman and thank you for joining us from our new york studio. >> guest: thanks so much for having me on again, peter. a week -- and the cookies and super cookies to track where internet users go on the web. "wall street journal" technology editor julia angwin joins us concerning legislation on how internet users are tracked. >> host: we would like to introduce you to people who write about and think about telecommunications issues, internet trends and the public policy behind all of that. today, we are pleased we are pleased to introduce you to julia angwin. she is a senior technology editor with "the wall street journal." she joins us from our new york studio. ms. england there is a series in "the wall street journal," rather frequent series in "the wall street journal" called what they know. what is that serious about? >> guest: hi, thanks for having me on. of a series of what they know launched last year, and it's really about privacy in the digital age. we started off by wi