The Boston Review has an interesting article on the industry and Amazon. Here's a little snippet from the article.Today an estimated 75 percent of online book purchases in the United States are made through Amazon, and its overall market share in book sales is astonishingly high. Some publishers make more than half of their sales... Continue Reading →
Janet Lee Carey (one of our own SCBWI Western Washington members) sent this link to an article, written by Onnesha Roychoudhuri for the Boston Review, that lays out what Amazon is doing and what publishers are facing right now. To find out more about Janet's work visit her website.