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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Wow. What a clever idea, Amazon, to insult the integrity of a writer who brings you thousands of sales.
There is no way Hachette would "pose this idea" because it would hurt them financially much more than Amazon. Some of the publishing industry English major types may be a little slower to add up a column of numbers than the Carnegie Mellon computer science grads at Amazon, but they do figure it out. See:
The New Amazon Offer to Hachette
Full disclosure is that Richard Russo has long been my favorite living novelist. |
I don't get the insult. Seems they're saying in a hypothetical world, if roles were reversed, that there would be a massive uproar against Amazon for rejecting the proposal. And they're right. But it's Amazon, the monopoly that isn't a monopoly that people love to bash.