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Originally Posted by Barcey
So Douglas Preston and pals called on their army of lemmings to fill up Jeff Bezos's email box and now Amazon has called on their army of lemmings to do the same to Michael Pietsch. Yep just like high school.
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From a PR point of view, the difference is that the authors initiated it on the Hatchette side (or at least if Hatchette initiated it as some speculate, no one has presented any evidence that Hatchette initiated it) while on the Amazon side, Amazon is prompting their authors to mail bomb Hatchette. It's the difference between grassroots and astroturfing in politics. I suspect that it's unlikely to sway anyone to Amazon's side in the PR battle.
From a more practice point of view, why should the indie authors care what Hatchette wants to sell ebooks at? From their POV, don't they want Hatchette ebooks to be as pricey as possible? That way, readers who care more about price than specific authors are more likely to buy from the indie authors.