Not content with just selling books and devices to read books, Amazon has made another step and has become a publishing house for science fiction books. Their new imprint is called 47 North, and they have already announced their first few books including the Neal Stephenson led The Mongoloid: Book One and Dave Duncan’s Against the Light.

I’ll be curious to see how this works out and if they can get big names (although Stephenson is a pretty big name) to publish through them. I also wonder how well these books will be supported outside of Amazon. Will Barnes and Noble be willing to sell it?