An Impassioned Defense of Amazon

An impassioned defense of Amazon from author Frank Schaeffer caught my eye this morning. He calls the folks at Amazon "liberators." I love it.

Here's an excerpt:

"My liberators at Amazon have freed me to write for you directly and to say what I want to say to anyone I want to say it to. The Internet and its innovators are doing more to facilitate the reemergence of content-laden, craft-rich, hands-on art, individuality and perhaps even spirituality, than all the galleries, agents, critics, churches and publishers combined.

As e-books have moved into center stage, all my traditional publishers overpriced them, doing everything they could to hang on to print in a digital age. And like some old boys' club, agents and even reviewers played the game of lamenting the old days when "upstarts" like the big book chains came along, displacing the smaller bookstores, to be displaced themselves by Amazon."

Check out the complete Huffington Post article here.