Amazon Has Plan to Get Indie Bookstores to Kill Themselves

Amazon sent out an unusual press release this morning. "Independent Bookstores Can Now Sell Kindles and Earn 10% From Future Kindle Books Sold," says the release. The headline pretty much tells the story. Amazon is telling bookstores that they can now sell the Kindle in their stores. When a customer who buys the Kindle in the store buys a book on the Kindle, the store gets 10% of the sale for two years after the Kindle is sold.