Seattle helps shape what nation reads

The Seattle Times Brags A Bit: In many ways, Pearl’s rise in the book world parallels Seattle’s rise in the publishing world. Though the big publishing houses are still ensconced in New York, the Seattle area is the home of Amazon.com, Starbucks and Costco, three companies that increasingly influence what America reads.

Books by relatively unknown or foreign authors become best-sellers by dint of their anointment at the hands of Amazon editors.

Same story with a slightly different slant than this one as reported here in LISNews.