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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
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Seems the decision was made personally by Orbit's CEO and we shouldn't complain about it or the authors will suffer, from one of Charlie Stross' comments on that post:
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The decision was taken by Orbit's CEO, personally. I have discussed the matter with him. So has my agent. So have Seanan's and Ann's agents. He's not budging.
Please DO NOT pester Tim Holman. It won't work, and he might get the impression I set you up to do so. My agent is currently in the process of closing the deal for the next two Laundry Files books with Orbit. If you want to see them published in the UK at all*, it would be a really bad idea to get my British publisher's CEO personally pissed-off at me. It will also leave a big fat hole in my cash flow for a couple of years if this deal tanks, so I won't thank you, either.
Are we clear, yet?
* We're talking books 6 and 7 of an existing series. No other British publisher would touch it at this point because the existing publisher could exert huge leverage over their marketing if they felt like getting nasty, for any reason at all.
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So fine, I won't complain, but I will never buy anything published by Orbit or its subsidiaries ever again. This may hurt the authors, but I can't support a company that acts like this and would retaliate against its authors
because their fans complained about Orbit's actions.
Also, ironic I commented before about being surprised Orbit participated in the Hugo packets at all in the past, and they go and do this.
