* It’s an uncertain time for books and authors … in a confusing battle of corporate giants, “books are in danger of becoming road kill in a larger war”

****** extracted and paraphrased from … Paper Trail, an article by Ken Auletta in New Yorker 6/25/12 … A huge fight has been going on between Amazon and the book publishers for years … Amazon was selling books at a loss: while publishers typically sold e-books to Amazon for about fifteen dollars apiece, Amazon was [...]