Salon Book Awards 2008

The conventional wisdom in publishing holds that tough economic times are good for books, because books provide more hours of entertainment per dollar, more life-enhancing education and more grist for post-materialistic soul-searching than any other form of purchasable culture.

Then again, 2008 was a year when all conventional wisdom went south, and we end it with layoffs in many of the largest… » Full Story on Salon.com