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Bill Petrocelli, owner of Book Passage in Corte Madera (and also a lawyer) makes clear how Amazon, an economic force unto itself, is slashing and burning through the world of writing, publishing, and bookselling. His article, published in yesterday’s Huffington Post, was aptly titled Amazon Goes for the Jugular.
