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Originally Posted by JSWolf
We means Hatchette.
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I did make an error is presuming that "we" meant eBook purchasers.
But reading your
post #430, and regardless of your intention, I don't think "we means Hachette" is the most reasonable interpretation of what you wrote. The "our books launched Amazon" quotation beginning that post is from Authors United, not Hachette.
If Hachette, the smallest of the big five, said that they launched Amazon, that would indeed be incorrect, but I can't find any statement from Hachette that they have.
And looking down the list of
900 authors, I see a whole bunch of bestselling authors from the 1990's and the aughts. And not only is it reasonable to think their books launched Amazon, they signed a statement saying they do think it.
I do note that the single author who probably did the most to make Amazon, J. K. Rowling, didn't sign. Googling, she made an anti-Amazon tweet in June, but has been fairly quiet on this issue since then. One might note that
Amazon is treating her latest book quite well*. I'm personally confident that Rowling can't be bought, but maybe there's an Amazon executive who thinks a bit of insurance can't hurt.
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* Note in case the link changes by the time some click: When I posted this, Amazon was selling the eBook
Silkworm for $8.99, with immediate shipment at 40 percent off for the hardcover.