The Author's Guild co-VP Richard Russo wrote an open letter about Amazon's offer.
www.authorsguild.org/general/letter-from-richard-russo-on-the-amazon-hachette-dispute/
Amazon actually responded to it.
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...-hachette.html
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Our offer is sincere and it stands—Hachette need only say yes to help their authors. We also wonder what this letter would look like if Hachette had posed this idea and Amazon had rejected it. The letter conflates the long-term structure of the industry with a short-term proposal designed to take authors, the constituency this organization supposedly represents, out of the line of fire of a negotiation between large corporations. Given that the Authors Guild are an author's advocacy group, it is hard to believe they don't support this. They are the Authors Guild, not the Publishers Guild.
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