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Old 07-15-2014, 12:37 AM   #79
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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg View Post
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.
Amazon may not be insulting Richard Russo's integrity, but I am.

As a result of Richard Russo writing this clearly self-centered rant (focused on his own better-than-average relationship with his publisher), he has shown himself to have no integrity.

Also, he is insulting the integrity of the company that has brought him thousands of sales.
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