It’s hard to run your own show and cover it at the same time. We’ll have some of our own reports from the interesting Publishers Launch BEA Conference shortly–but in the meantime, there are some stories from others to check out. TheStreet.com has a long write-up of Providence Equity Partners senior advisor Brian Napack’s discussion of investment, consolidation and scale. “Amazon, at its heart, is a customer relationship management company. Publishers, at their heart, are author relationship management companies.” But each needs, and is interested in developing for themselves, what the other one has. Laura Owen at paidContent has a long piece on what […]