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Originally Posted by murg
She may be talking about the agents. There was a recent post on either here or The Digital Reader about the agents only being interesting in the genres that are currently selling.
I don't see Amazon trying to tell authors what to write, they only seem interested in the pricing, being that they are pretty much happy to sell anything.
Then again, maybe she's talking about the publishers...
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Nope.
She is talking Amazon.
This is her third swipe at Amazon in the last six weeks.
She thinks Amazon censors books and decides what gets published or not.
http://www.salon.com/2014/11/18/ursu...get_published/
Appparently she lives in a very different and nastier world than this.
Probably the one where Spock wears a beard and Amazon has secret death squads that disappear authors.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/bu...=top-news&_r=1
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“We’re talking about censorship: deliberately making a book hard or impossible to get, ‘disappearing’ an author,” Ms. Le Guin wrote in an email. “Governments use censorship for moral and political ends, justifiable or not. Amazon is using censorship to gain total market control so they can dictate to publishers what they can publish, to authors what they can write, to readers what they can buy. This is more than unjustifiable, it is intolerable.”
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That clearly isn't the same world we live in, right?
In this world, Amazon is guilty of fostering a tsunami of crap by making it possible for everybody and anybody to publish anything.