Today in books: Publishing is sort of kind of dead?; the best books of 2012 are already being crowned; Amazon somehow forgot to pay European taxes; Herman Wouk is still at it.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty of tax evasion and sentenced to four years in prison by a Milan court on Friday, Bloomberg News reports. That's two less years than what the Italian seismologists who were found guilty for not predicting the L'Aquila earthquake.
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