They were a team, once. In the mid-1990s, the fledgling e-retailer Amazon and the major New York publishing houses—the Big Six, as they were then known—professed themselves partners in a new era of online bookselling. One senior executive recalls Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos, announcing his enthusiasm for their common cause. "I remember sitting at a conference table with Jeff telling a handful of us about what he wanted to do," says the executive, who asked to remain anonymous. "We said, 'That's great.'" And for years the partnership was mutually beneficial. As Grove/Atlantic's president and publisher Morgan Entrekin conceded back in July, at a forum at the New York Public Library (NYPL), Amazon provided "a smooth transition to digital" that kept publishers happy: "It was primarily that there was a reliable vendor; we didn't have piracy problems, and we got paid decently." Good times, those............
Link: http://www.pw.org/content/the_amazon_conflict
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