to an equal weight from an underweight rating braced on strong traffic trends and valuations fall ollo in the stock, up by a percent, carl, in today's trade. back to you. >> thank you very much. looks like the heated dispult between amazon and the publisher is not dying down soon. this weekend over 900 authors signed an open letter to protest the online retail giant's tactics in the battle. joining us here at post nine this morning is an author, best selling of "girl talk," carol weston. you're speaking out. why? >> why? because amazon, we like them, they deliver fast books, deliver cheap books, and we, readers, and writers like that. the problem is they make books so darn cheap, sounds good, but they are hurting publishing companies and authors and mom and pop bookstores, not something that any readermen mw. bookstores are important to make a community vibrant. we want to browse for books and have a cat come by your knee, you know, see what books you want rather than going to a big internet and knowing that you want this one book. you want to get -- find books along the way to the boo