- Barack Obama won the presidential election, and it wasn’t long before publishers began announcing new Obama books.
- Leonard Riggio of Barnes & Noble predicted the worst holiday season for booksellers in 40-some years.
- Radar claimed that Sarah Palin was close to a $7 million book deal—to be honest, we were amazed anybody took the story seriously.
- Michael Crichton and John Leonard both died of cancer, a day apart from each other.
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt declared a “freeze” on new acquisitions. This prompted a bunch of outside observers to declare the publishing apocalypse had begun…