Until this morning’s mystifying Lauren Myracle news, people in publishing were shaking their heads in a variety of ways over today’s NYT piece on Amazon’s publishing efforts. The idea is that buying a celebrity memoir at auction and reissuing a self-published work for no advance changes the game, but it mostly proves that almost any article about Amazon gives a reporter a shot at the newspaper’s front page, even when it contains no actual news. Amazon’s Russ Grandinetti “said publishers were in love with their own demise” and commented, “It’s always the end of the world.” At least in the […]
