http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/technology/amazon-rewrites-the-rules-of-book-publishing.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all&src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB The New York Time of Monday 11.10.17 reported that Amazon.com, originally the biggest online bookstore, now the biggest online shopping center for many products including bound and digital books, is rewriting the rules for book publishing. With Amazon's help, book authors can bypass publishers and book agents to create their manuscript which Amazon will then publish at least as a digital copy. But Amazon also offers book cover creation and other amenities usually offered by in-print bound-book publishers. For the reader's information, some much smaller web sites exist as of the end of October 2011 which let the author write their book online at their web site. Then the web site operators walk the author through the rest of the web publishing, and if desired the bound-book publishing process online as well.