Amazon, Amazon, do you know how not to make waves? Two stories come to us from that corner of the Internet where items are sold like a really boring wild west market. 122 books will be published this fall by Amazon.com, both in print and electronic format, bypassing the traditional publishing houses that rule the book world like an iron fist rules a dick punching competition. Will the publishing world strike back like the empire we know they are? Or will it take a lone orphan living with his aunt and uncle to find the true way of the Force and rescue a hottie that he later finds out is his sister? We may never know. NYTimes
The British Library is being criticized for linking to the Amazon market place for book information in its online catalog. Book sellers and libraries across the land are denouncing the once great king for promoting a giant and forgetting about all the little British ant hills. May the fires of Arnethor and Bledewindlestick stoke their hearts and not their asses. Low be unto thee who understands why I started talking like this. Seriously, folks are pissed. Telegraph
Self-published author Amanda Hocking recently signed a book deal with St. Martin's Press for more than $2 million. Hocking has already made around that much in her self publishing efforts, as we 
