Here’s an author who is keenly aware of her own community of booksellers, future writers, and readers.

An initiative in the works from the nonprofit Internet Archive to centralize the electronic distribution of commercially viable books could upend the publishing industry and declaw Amazon.com

“According to my math, I’d be making more money if my books were out of print, and I had my rights back.”

Disintermediation: the elimination of intermediaries in the supply chain, or cutting out the middlemen.