Price, speed, and convenience will probably determine how information that is carefully argued and presented in book form will be distributed.

A recent trading day resulted in a 27% jump in Amazon.com (AMZN) ….In short, Amazon.com is selling an enormous (but secret) number of Kindle e-book readers.

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

Great bargains, you will think. In the short run. How will this trend affect Hawaii publishers and authors? And Hawaii readers? It will probably eventually drive them to ebooks, because if this is a permanent trend, it will make publishing and bookselling of regular books in Hawaii especially difficult.

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