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Amazon makes money differently from a conventional publisher. It is an infrastructure player.

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when the book world was in distress, offering a vital new source of sales.

Amazon is such a big player in publishing, but a lot of authors feel this connection to their publishing house and their editors who helped them get their books out there, so their loyalties tend to go that way.

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Amazon.com strives to be the e-commerce destination where consumers can find and discover anything they want to buy online.

When a single author uploading his own books to Amazon can earn more money than a large N.Y. publisher exploiting both print and e-rights, there's something amiss.

Amazon has historically been a bully, and I don't shop there. But I love Goodreads. For the record.

Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.

Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones.