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Originally Posted by ApK
[...]An ally is not the same thing as a pawn.[...]
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True enough. But we should bring this back to what Amazon actually said:
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We recognize that writers reasonably want to be left out of a dispute between large companies.
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This in an email asking writers to take a part in the dispute. Given the help they've already been receiving (presumably unsolicited, but I don't know), the email seemed inappropriate. Even more so when it is unclear that Amazon's demands are doing any favours for self-published authors - and could be quite the reverse.