The Authors Guild takes on Amazon

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Is Amazon's rising power a threat to authors? This post from the Authors Guild says it is: "Amazon has firm control of bookselling’s online future as it works to undermine bookselling’s remaining brick-and-mortar infrastructure." Don't miss the comments, where some endorse the Amazon-as-evil meme, and others blame brick-and-mortar stores: "The publishing establishment waited far too long to do anything productive to address the problems in their own business."

February 8, 2012

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