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Originally Posted by Barcey
Yes that was another good blog post by Dan Meadows. Contract negotiations and disputes happen all the time and we normally don't hear about them. The Disney and Warner Bros disputes hit the press because eeeevil Amazon was at it again but somehow it didn't hit the news when they were able to resolve them.
Amazon has made at least three very reasonable offers of putting a time clock on the negotiations with an associated financial penalty on both parties. This is a typical good faith arrangement to demonstrate that both parties are doing everything in their power to resolve the dispute and any financial penalties accumulated would be distributed to 3rd parties that were impacted (the authors). Hachette has quickly rejected each of these so they've demonstrated that they have no interest in bargaining in good faith or quickly resolving the dispute.
The Authors United claim that they are not taking sides is pathetic and insincere. There has been zero criticism about Hachette despite the fact that a lot of the blame should be hoisted on Hachette's shoulders.
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Or perhaps Amazon wanted a time limit because they wanted to strong arm the publishers into line one at a time rather than deal with several at the same time. Amazon isn't as pure as the driven snow. This is two large corporations negotiating. Hachette looks at this from a publisher's point of view, while Amazon looks at it from a retailer's point of view. Neither looks at it from the customer's point of view, Amazon's protestations to the contrary.