To be honest, there is not enough solid information on what is actually going on. We can hypothesise and theorise all we like, but nobody knows for sure what is really going on. I don't want publishers to disappear, but they really need to modify their terms with authors in order that they treat them fairly. It's rather ironic and frankly hypocritical that they are complaining about Amazon's bad practices when they are almost as culpable. I hope Hachette and Amazon sort themselves out, as I like the output from Orbit, and don't want to see the authors suffer for much longer.
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