I'm Backing Amazon and Authors Should Too

[Commentary] The fight between Amazon and Hachette is ostensibly about e-book pricing. In reality, it is about much more: innovation and the future of publishing. I'm supporting Amazon.

I think Amazon is far more likely to come up with innovations that may save book publishing, which is in desperate need of being saved. Amazon has given all authors -- not just the big names -- a better chance of being discovered and making more money. Hachette is trying to maintain a paper-publishing business model in an increasingly e-book world. Authors aren't pawns in this battle between two giants who have very different visions of the future. They are the potential beneficiaries of an industry that needs to be reinvented. I'm willing to risk siding with the innovator. [Cohen is an attorney at KDLM]