Someday These Bones Will Be Worth Saving

“Publishers are selling drinks on the Titanic."

Brad Stone writing on Amazon’s foray into publishing and the publishing industry’s fumbling defiance:

Kirshbaum’s rivals predict, perhaps wishfully, that Amazon is about to get an education in the burdens of book publishing… The late-night phone calls from neurotic authors, the frantic edits on awful manuscripts—this is a business that demands more handholding than Amazon generally seems comfortable with. Then again, Amazon can deliver a trampoline or a 20-pack of ramen in 24 hours, so it’s fairly comfortable with complexity.