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Originally Posted by varlog
I think that's what really bothers her. Not being an author I don't know the precise circumstances of course, how much force is applied ,
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Plenty of anecdotal reports to be found.
Like this one:
http://www.thepassivevoice.com/11/20...comment-269132
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A writer friend of mine sends me her final drafts to beta-read. Always a treat! She has an amazing YA voice. Anyhow, she wrote a YA book that took on an old urban legend. It was great. She got an agent and a publisher and there was a bidding war. And then, after all of that. the winning publisher made her rewrite the entire book. Of the 90,000 or so words, they had her change about 85,000, excising all of the backstory and making it the perfect book to launch a movie. Yes, they got the movie rights. This is a publisher that has decided to only do books for movie tie-in. They took her magnificent idea and thought, this would be a great teen horror flick, and had her basically write the script in book form.
Honestly, it’s not good anymore. They couldn’t hide her brilliance, that shines through, but the plot was homogenized to require less thought on the part of the reader. They no longer allowed her to humanize the villain and that broke my heart.
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Problem is, none of the incidents involve Amazon at all because they are just a retailer. And one infamous for stocking practically anything.
Publishers work off the Golden Rule: "Them's with the gold make the rules."
You take their money, you dance their tune.
But LeGuin wants it both ways; their money, her tune.
That might work in Norway but not in Manhattan.