Touchco Buy Sets Amazon on Course to a Touchscreen Kindle

With no end in sight to the fracas that has gripped the publishing industry over the last week -- it's Day 7, and there are still no buy buttons available on Amazon (AMZN) for print and digital editions of Macmillan titles, despite half-hearted promises of "capitulation" and rumors of resolution -- it's becoming ever clearer that the only timetable Amazon respects is its own.