Are books dead, and can authors survive?

[Mark Kohut]

in July, adult hardcovers staged a rebound, with sales rising 33.9%. (Vacation readers prefer either hardcovers or e-books?) 

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/22/are-books-dead-ewan-morrison

Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html