Books are in danger of being the road kill in a larger war.”

A huge fight has been going on between Amazon and the book publishers for years. This fight could have profound repercussions for publishers, bookstores and authors. Yet to Amazon, this fight is the “undercard.” The “main event” is a free for all among the 5 U.S. digital giants: Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. In this fight, books are not the major battleground.

read more from a post extracted and paraphrased from … Paper Trail, an article by Ken Auletta in New Yorker 6/25/12 … at ... http://lewweinsteinauthorblog.com/201...