Most people are probably not aware of it but there is an all-out fight raging over the future of e-books and book publishing itself going on right now in this country. In a nutshell, traditional book publishers are afraid of Amazon, its Kindle and the possibility that it will commandeer the marketplace.
Already, one publisher after another in the past few weeks has announced that it will delay putting out electronic versions of its books for months so that consumers must pay full price for hardcovers ($25 to $35) as opposed to $9.99 for e-books.
Earlier this week, best-selling author Stephen Covey transferred his e-book rights directly to Amazon for one year and took them away from Simon & Schuster. That sent chills through a lot of people in the book publishing worl...(continue reading)
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