Via Passive Guy, Comments on the British book business from FutureBook:

Those who want bold steps from an industry fixated on a 500-year-old format and locked to the fortunes of those businesses that sell it on their behalf, are looking in the wrong direction. Those publishers who attended the a.g.m made it clear that they would continue to fight the old battles, against piracy, tax, and ‘retailer dominance’.     And this is why you keep seeing things like SOPA and other attempts to get government to outlaw modernity.  And also why Amazon is eating their lunch, their dinner and their mid-afternoon snack.