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Originally Posted by JSWolf
So why do King, Rowling, and Patterson hate Amazon?
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Because they've made millons upon millions of dollars through the old system and see Amazon as enabling change *away* from that system? Because the old system strongly favors high-profile authors over mid-listers and newcomers and Amazon doesn't do so quite as much? It's easy to "curve fit" their statements to public data and concoct theories but they would be just speculation.
It doesn't much matter if they are simply misinformed or just too vested in the old system, the fact is they have expressed strong pro-publisher opinions repeatedly, even when the publshers have been known to be in the wrong, and can't be considered unbiased commenters.