Reporting from the London Book Fair in their Lunch Deluxe e-newsletter, Publisher’s Marketplace notes some comments by Vicky Barnsley of Harper UK, speaking at a panel titled “21st century issues:”

Barnsley said, “Personally, I see Amazon as a bigger threat to publishers [than Google is],” having displayed “interest that they want to move into the publishing space…. They recently hired someone from Penguin US; they are approaching agents and trying to acquire content, which is very different from what Google is doing.”

Yeah. I’d feel threatened, too.

This is huge.