From an email he sent me: Hi, Paul! Here's something you might want to link. I finally figured out what ebooks are on the screen in Amazon's newest Kindle ads? It turns out there's some surprises! Mini Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella actually appears in two different Kindle ads!  And that woman reading calmly by the side of a river is reading about racism in the 1950s in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. In the latest ad, it's Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, and another ad includes The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. (And I still think it's amazing that in that ad...

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Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two. Always at the forefront of the reversal of fortune is greed. This week’s menace to eBookland is literary agent Andrew Wylie and his new publishing venture Odyssey. Wylie could have summed up his actions in simple terms: to disserve both his clients and the ebook-buying public. What, you ask, did he do? He agreed to give Amazon exclusive rights for 2 years to his authors’ backlist titles; Wylie will publish the books and exclusively sell them through Amazon. The backlist includes...

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