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Originally Posted by fjtorres
So, by banding together to intimidate Amazon, they can be charged with antitrust themselves.
And they just invited the DOJ to investigate the whole mess.
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Have you considered that most top US administration officials either are major publisher authors, or fancy one day becoming one? Ditto for the Supreme Court. While most of these people try to maintain objectivity, there are limits to how far they will bend over backwards against their self-interest. So, I think, the chances that authors will be hauled into court, for a speech act, even a commercial speech act, is close to zero.
But I could be wrong. Then the triumphant editorials, in mainland China's official media, concerning the hypocrisy of US government complaints about treatment of Chinese authors, will write themselves.
On a less confrontational note: I am reading a
Hachette novel published yesterday, and found this on the copyright page:
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The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.
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I presume this notice is quite new. And I presume it is related to the subject matter of this thread. And I wonder if this silly waste of ink and/or electrons will mar our books for the rest of our lives.