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Originally Posted by pwalker8
The practical effects of good publicity and bad publicity can be hard to measure, but certainly bad publicity is rarely a good thing. In this particular case, the real issue is that it was needless, and thus indicates a degree of either arrogance or lack of understanding. In either case, that sort of thing has a way of catching up with a company. At the very least, he risks sabotaging his own program as angry authors pull out of it, making it more difficult to compete with other subscription services.
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What angry authors?
The Hachette authors? They aren't directly on Amazon.
The independents? They loved it, all that money not being spent on Hachette was being spent somewhere else.
The Authors United crackpots? More like they pissed off their readers.