Bloomberg Business Week’s Brad Stone is working on a book about Amazon (not disclosed in the online version of next week’s cover story) and we should all hope that his editors help him root his narrative more in facts than the magazine piece. Here, you “big publishers” are sitting around “in high-rise offices” with “resplendent views”–while making the “screech of a small woodland creature being pursued by a jungle predator.” (Readers do not learn of Amazon Publishing NY’s space at 1350 Avenue of the Americas.) Book publishing is “an inefficient industry if there ever was one”–unlike, say, magazine publishing, where […]
