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Will Random House Chicken Out Again?

Posted at 7:19AM Monday 26 Jul 2010

Revolutions produce unlikely heroes, and the Digital Revolution has produced a very unlikely one in the form of a man that many believe is so wanting in ethical principles that he is nicknamed The Jackal. Yet it is on literary agent Andrew Wylie's fangs and claws that the populist dream of a fair e-book royalty rests as he dares the world's highest profile trade book publisher to do something about the slap he has administered to its face.

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