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Originally Posted by hardcastle
I find Konrath was in better form here than versus the Author's United, where he might have went a little too heavy with the insults. I know it makes for a more entertaining read, but I'd rather true discussion take place than amusing but useless inflammatory takedowns.
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Think of it as a matter of proportionality.
The Guild's semi-new administration is merely spineless and technologically clueless.
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...y-amazon.shtml
Preston and company are self-important twits and more than a bit mean spirited.
Try this:
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20...22088129.shtml
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So, what's a bigger sense of entitlement? The one where your customers tell you that you've priced something too high and that they're going to spend their money with others who are offering something at a price point they like? Or the one where you insist that books have to be priced high because you want them to be priced high? I'd argue it's the latter...
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You have a millionaire with a "writer's shack" retreat in Maine, all 300 acres of it, complaining that Amazon promoting indie titles instead of his is effectively a crime against humanity, $100,000 on meaningless newspaper ads, when he cut out that money into literacy programs, supporting libraries or whatever cause his in-crowd favors.
Instead, he (and his gang of fools) rails against a channel that is letting thousands of authors make mortgage money, car payments, put their kids through school money. No amount of mockery is enough reward for that crew.
The Guild complains about all the authors getting shafted by the BPHs... and then turns around and supports this mean-spirited crusade against the only viable alternative to poverty many authors have?
He went easy on them.