As many twists and turns off-page as on-page
Readers gain when booksellers slug it out, report LESLIE KAUFMAN and ELIZABETH A HARRIS
Add BT as a preferred sourceLIKE any mystery novel expected to be a summer blockbuster, Robert Galbraith's The Silkworm, released last Thursday, features shadowy subtext and crafty machinations - but in this book's case, the manoeuvrings are both on and off the page.
That's because Galbraith is not a run-of-the-mill thriller writer but the pseudonym for JK Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series, and the publisher is Little, Brown and Co, a division of Hachette Book Group, which is locked in battle with Amazon, the giant online retailer.
Amazon, which controls roughly a third of the US book market, has been discouraging sales of Hachette books in an effort to make the publisher agree to terms on a new contract for its e-books.
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