In the whole DOJ/big six of publishing kerfuffle something has just surfaced that made me lose my temper and go into rant mode.  If you’ve been following and are in the mood for a rant, read on.  This is what set me off, via Joe Konrath:  One Book Is Pretty Much The Same As Any Other.  Lipskar acknowledges, as he must, that the prices of New York Times bestselling books went up following the simultaneous industry-wide imposition of agency pricing …………… But, he claims, these higher prices couldn’t hurt anyone because the prices of other books decreased