Amazon’s battle with Hachette Book Group is starting to heat up

If you’re hoping to pre-order books by J.K. Rowling, Michael Connelly, and other Hachette Book Group authors, you’ll have to go somewhere besides Amazon. An ongoing standoff between Amazon and one of the leading New York publishers has escalated. The online retailer has removed pre-order buttons for such books as Connelly’s “The Burning Room” and Rowling’s “The Silkworm,” a detective story she wrote under the pen name Robert Galbraith. Hachette issued a statement Friday saying it hopes to “find a solution to this difficult situation.” Amazon declined to comment.