Amazon Signing Authors to Cut Publishers Out of the Deal

I'm linking this post to a great story from IT World based on an article from the New York Times.

First, Amazon killed, or seriously wounded, the bookstores. Now they're trying to do the same to publishers. Will publishers handle the threat of digital distribution better than the music business?

The New York Times called this, “Writing Publishers Out of the Deal,” and since New York is the hub of the traditional publishing business, this story should sound the alarm bell for the publishers still burying their corporate heads in the sand.  More >>>