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Amazon as a 'Netflix for Books'? How Reading Changes

Back in the dark ages -- say, 1995, -- there was an upstart little website called Amazon.com that fancied itself as the first real online bookstore. People didn't need to try a book on or squeeze it for freshness, the logic went, so books were a natural for e-commerce. Flash forward to 2011, and Amazon says everything has changed. With its Kindle e-reader, it now sells more eBooks -- electronic downloads of books -- than it does physical books on paper. And if leaked stories are to be...Full Story
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