...of course, it might help his cause a bit more if he actually understood consumer attitudes and economic reality.
http://the-digital-reader.com/2014/0.../#.U-yfZurD_MI
Or if he had given any thought to how at least some readers would react to him so visibly aligning himself to Mr Preston, the man who, as the illegal 2010 price-fixing conspiracy kicked in, raising prices to $15, said this:
“The sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,” said Douglas Preston, whose novel “Impact” reached as high as No. 4 on The New York Times’s hardcover fiction best-seller list earlier this month. “It’s the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our country. It’s this notion of not wanting to pay the real price of something.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/te...ader.html?_r=0
If you're a country club millionaire, $5 is probably the smallest bill you would deign to burn to light your cigar, but out in the real world, a fiver is worth at least a latte.
Gotta say, at least by signing that letter those guys have saved a lot of us the trouble of compiling a s**tlist.
I wonder if they've noticed that Hachette sakes--their titles--are down at Nook, too.
(Back to the fallout shelter, now.)