Covering the Used Books Coverage Following yesterday’s preview of the BISG study, here are short glimpses of how the traditional press positioned the results: The WSJ focuses on “slightly used books” that are highly visible on Amazon.com — though the BISG study offered no specific data on these offerings. As usual, agents would like to see payments made to authors on these sales (which will never happen) and publishers wish Amazon wouldn’t push “used” sales of new titles so much (which will also never happen). WSJ The AP goes for the big overall number of $2.2 billion even though that’s […]