Legal Research

It's a sad day for those of us who have cherished the instant gratification of purchasing books at Amazon, and nourished its phenomenal growth with our dollars.  Like an over-indulged, spoiled child, the giant bookseller is throwing its weight around.  This article in the New York Times discusses how Amazon is using its 1-Click Ordering button to try to extract more favorable prices from publishers.  If the publisher refuses its demands, Amazon is likely to send buyers of that publisher's books (at least the ones that are not highly profitable to Amazon) to the Amazon open marketplace, where they must buy from other sellers, without the convenience of 1-Click Ordering.