Holiday Book Prices Plunge, as Wal-Mart and Amazon Scuffle

Wal-Mart and Amazon are in a price war over sales of hardcover editions of some of the coming holiday season’s biggest potential best sellers. Publishers, booksellers, agents and authors, meanwhile, fretted that the battle was taking prices for certain hardcover titles so low that it could fundamentally damage the industry and the ability of future authors to write or publish new works. The...