Bloomberg Businessweek“s January 30 cover story, “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Wants to Burn the Book Business,” includes rare interviews with Larry Kirshbaum, head of Amazon Publishing’s New York-based division and a publishing industry veteran who “has gone from one of the most well-liked people in publishing to the one of the most reviled,” in the words of industry consultant Mike Shatzkin.
The story, written by Businessweek technology writer Brad Stone (who will publish a book on the same subject next year), follows the history of Amazon’s entry into the book publishing world and doesn’t contain too many new nuggets for those who’ve been tracking the story already. Nor does the rancor that traditional publishers – none of whom were willing to speak on the record for this piece – feel toward Amazon come as a surprise…….
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