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Right before everyone ran off for the holidays, we asked the Book Business staff and contributors one question: What was the best book you read in 2012. It didn't need to have been published in 2012, just one that they read in the calendar year. These are the results:

One more person has discovered, like Baen, that if you release your content inexpensively and without DRM, you can beat piracy at its own game. Comedian Louis CK recently tried an experiment in which he made a full-length comedy special available for sale from his website, to stream or download with no DRM, for $5. [...]