It is almost hard to remember when all Amazon did was sell books -- the paperback and hardcover versions, that is. Over the years, the company has morphed and then morphed some more into a multilayered e-commerce platform, selling everything from digital music to storage space in the cloud to, well, just about any consumer product imaginable. Now it appears Amazon is going back to its bookseller roots by getting into the publishing business. It's expected to publish at least 122 books this fall in both physical and e-book form.
e-Commerce Times