Yeah and Melisandre said Stannis Baratheon was the prophesied prince. The future is hard to predict...

Seriously though after Martin said that Ty Frank took to Twitter to say he and Abraham won't finish it without George's consent. But what happens when his estate decides they want the check from the publisher?

Daniel Abraham was literally responsible for splitting of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons into two books because Martin wrote too much for one book (source they have talked about it to cons and a simple Google search confirms this). And he hasn't issued any qualms about finishing the work when Martin passes (hopefully with more written).

They have done tons of interviews so a Google search would do you well but you could also check their Wikipedia pages in and see the plethora of GOT writing projects and timeline stuff they are in charge of and see they both moved to George's neighborhood to work with him Daniel Abraham Ty Franck

Nah, he has two writing assistants who are published author's in their own right (one wrote the Expanse series). They will finish it when Martin is gone.

Yes they went on a buying spree several years ago (2013) and bought lots of smaller bookish companies. They didn't disclose price but it was rumored to be in the high hundreds of millions.

Yeah they became ads when Amazon bought them. The big A is only interested in getting us to buy more of what they can purchase large quantities of (if they convince 20k more people to buy a title they can get a bigger discount etc).

If I'm looking for a specific title or edition of a title I use ABE, Biblio, and maybe eBay. If I'm just looking for stuff to fill out my collection (an ever present need) I have the most luck with used bookstores.

Whenever we are going to travel (even just a couple hour trip) I open Google maps select my rout and then zoom in on population areas along the way and search "used bookstore." I almost always have several to pick from.

While I do love my public library, a good used bookstore is a game changer. There is no wait list for holds, no due date & fines, and no "oh sorry you live two blocks out of district" just browsing and finding great reads at significantly lowered price than MSRP. Bonus you can sell back books you don't need on your shelf anymore.