Amazon's Bezos Thinks Ebooks Made the Book Industry Healthier

"The book industry is in better shape than it ever has been and it's due to ebooks," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told an audience on Tuesday in a wide-ranging interview that addressed the company's drone plans, its campus culture and its indifference to pain of short-term shareholders. Speaking at a BusinessInsider event in New York, Bezos downplayed Amazon's recent high-profile spat with publisher Hachette as a run-of-the-mill fight with a supplier, adding that it's the essential job of any retailer to fight for the best price for its customers