List 1 -- Books I recommend

3= Must Read!
2= Good Read!
1= Mediocre Read.
0= Don't Waste Your Time.

Books on screenwriting:

(3) The Screenwriter's Bible; David Trottier
(3) The TV Writer's Workbook; Ellen Sandler
(2) Screenplay; Syd Field
(2) Save the Cat!; Blake Snyder
(2) Save the Cat! Goes to the Movies; Blake Snyder
(2) The First Time I Got Paid for It; Peter Lefcourt, Laura J. Shapiro

Books on making an independent movie:

(3) Film and Video Budgets; Deke Simon
(3) From Reel to Deal; Dov S.S. Simens
(2) Digital Filmmaking 101; Dale Newton, John Gaspard
(2) Filmmakers and Financing; Louise Levison
(2) $30.00 Film School; Michael W. Dean
(2) So You Want to be a Producer; Lawrence Turman
(1) What They Don't Teach You at Film School; Camille Landau, Tiare White

Moviemaking insight:

(3) Rebel Without a Crew; Robert Rodriguez
(3) Pitching Hollywood; Jonathan Koch, Robert Kosberg
(3) The Real, Low Down, Dirty Truth About Hollywood Agenting; Rima Greer
(2) My First Movie; Stephen Lowenstein

Other:

(3) An Agent Tells All; Tony Martinez
(3) The Dream Giver; Bruce Wilkinson

Magazines:

(3) MovieMaker
(3) Creative Screenwriting
(3) Scr(i)pt

I imagine I'm leaving several works off this list. For one thing, I read biographies of Steven Spielberg and Frank Capra, both of which were outstanding, but neither for which I can remember the author.

So this will have to do. It's a start. Notice I didn't rate any of the above books a zero (0). I don't think any reading is ever wasted. Then again, reading up on the business of Hollywood can become an easily defended form of procrastination. So can blogging. ;)