Barnes & Noble Taking On Amazon in the Fight for it's Life. I particularly like this paragraph:
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Like many struggling businesses, book publishers are cutting costs and trimming work forces. Yes, electronic books are booming, sometimes profitably, but not many publishers want e-books to dominate print books. Amazon’s chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, wants to cut out the middleman — that is, traditional publishers — by publishing e-books directly.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/bu...-its-life.html