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Originally Posted by ApK
[...]And you are free not to give it if you don't think it's in your best interest, of course.
Or even if you thought it was.
I happen to agree with Amazon, and I'm still not writing Hachette.
Of course, my status as "a KDP author" barely moves the needle in to the "technically true" range so I doubt anyone cares.
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Your last bit is true of all but the few most successful self-published authors. Which makes Amazon's request all the more strange. Why should Hachette care what a bunch of relatively small author's - that they've already rejected (well, some of them probably) - have to say?
Of course, it's not really that strange. It was a PR stunt, just like much of what has gone on with this dispute. And being a stunt, brings me back to arguing that they are attempting to use authors as pawns, even if their wording makes it sound like they're looking for allies (that's just part of the stunt).