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Unless ...

It may be exactly the true intention to give Amazon amunition and strong arguments. The authors may have given up the right to negotiate, but they still have the right to express their opinion. By ridiculing Hachette's demands, they are not trying for Amazon to make a move, but Hachette.

Robinsons says she is not a special snowflake, the letter says different. So it is up to Hachette to stop treating the authors as special snowflake and start negotiating with the books as consumer products they are.

The letter could not have been done any better - without saying so directly they disagree how Hachette treats them and Amazon.

Well wishful thinking on my part, they are probably so special as to mean everything the letter said.