Larry Kirshbaum Shares Many More Details on How Amazon Publishing Will Work

Last week, Amazon New York publisher Larry Kirshbaum sat down for an interview with writer and former Random House editor Daniel Menaker at Stony Brook Southampton’s “Writers Speak Wednesday.” Here are the most interesting things he said.

“Despite the fact that Amazon is a very large company on the retail side, as you all know, we’re really a very small publisher. We’re a startup. We only have about 20, 25 people.… In a lot of ways, we are operating it as a small publishing house.