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Originally Posted by gmw
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).
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Unless you consider that, as was said earlier, authors are readers first, and readers are customers, and Amazon has more of them on their side.
In which case, I guess it's still a stunt, but a good one, if it works.