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Old 06-24-2014, 12:23 AM   #422
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Originally Posted by Barcey View Post
I thought that this would come to a head when JK Rowling's book actually got released but it seems that they've come to an agreement so that Amazon will sell it. This could drag on a while yet and it's not going to sit well with the other impacted Hachette authors.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...d-dispute.html
The following quote from that article is total BS. It's on sale at Amazon with reduced wait times because it's a book by J. K. Rowling and Amazon doesn't want to lose out on the sales they expect to get from this book.

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“The book is available because it went on sale yesterday,” said Sarah Gelman, a spokeswoman at Seattle-based Amazon, in an e-mail.
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