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I thought this was interesting.
Greg
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Other companies involved in terse negotiations with Amazon, involving many of the same tactics, have emerged none-the-worse-for-wear in a matter of weeks.
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Nobody has statistics on what the average length of time is of an Amazon-supplier dispute. I see that Amazon is now selling MacBook computers, but for how many years were they not?
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First, your response to Amazon’s offer to participate in a royalty fund for impacted writers is puzzling if your desire is to care for your writers.
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Royalties are a scheme to shift the risk from publisher to author.
Royalties mean putting the risk on the author. If Hachette cared tremendously for the writers, they would be buying the titles they liked outright, as would Amazon.
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Amazon insisted that Perseus communicate the news to its clients over the phone, rather than via email.
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Some people are desperate in their determination to hide from us the real facts here. I'm sure several of those Authors United have leaked the terms to Hachette, so why can't we know?
