Don't fragment books (or other content)

I agree with Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear that Andrew Wylie's deal to publish big authors' backlists exclusively on the Amazon Kindle is bad for readers (and for authors and for the industry).

Fragmenting content such that one has to buy one device to read one author and another to read another is blind to the needs and realities of the market. It's dealmaking for dealmaking's sake.

If I were one of those authors, I'd squeal like a columnist put behind a Times paywall (either one). Random...