Once More About The iPad, Kindle, and Publishing

The New Yorker has a long piece on the subject by Ken Auletta. It's thorough. Like I said - long. But it's a great overview of the whole situation. It's got some startleling bits of info, like this, for example:

"A close associate of Bezos puts it more starkly: "What Amazon really wanted to do was make the price of e-books so low that people would no longer buy hardcover books. Then the next shoe to drop would be to cut publishers out and go right to authors."

Yikes. These guys really do think ...