I received an email yesterday from the ever-wonderful Authors Guild of America announcing that they were able to restore a list of authors on the shelves of Barnes & Noble bookstores. With the advent of eBooks and an economy where the first things to go are luxuries like novels, the ivory tower, as trade book publishing was once perceived, has turned in the wild, wild West, everybody gunning for somebody and authors and readers being used as shields or weapons, depending on one’s point of view. At any rate, Amazon bought Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books in December...
