The publisher's contribution is invisible, but awesome. Trust me, the books wouldn't be the same without them. Amazon's visible contribution is ... well, there

The publisher's contribution is invisible, but awesome. Trust me, the books wouldn't be the same without them. Amazon's visible contribution is ... well, there's something rather nasty happening behind the stage curtain. Agreed, the mass market channel for paperback distribution must die -- everyone in publishing agrees on this (the 50% wastage is grotesque) ... just not until there's a replacement way for injecting cheap books into readers' eyeballs.