I spoke about various ongoing antitrust investigations into agency model pricing on All Things Considered earlier today. Since it was a short segment, there was a ton of stuff that didn’t make it into the broadcast (not to mention, as I said to the producers and to Lynn Neary off-tape, this topic leads to so many different other Amazon and publishing-related issues that have dominated the publishing headlines in 2011 that it’s like being sucked down a gigantic rabbit hole) but I do think it’s fair to say no decisions on any of those pending inquiries - state, federal, EU - will be arrived at anytime soon.

And this weekend, my black-blazer-wearing self will be on Book TV talking about the Year in Books. Which (surprise) turned out mostly to be the Year in Publishing.