This one is a bit odd.
Invited to a twitter chat to discuss "Wednesday Special: Authors United Against Monopolistic Bookselling", the AU, AG, ABA, AAR, etc sent... nobody...
http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/0...comment-908480
With a topic title like that you'd expect a friendly host, no?
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Ably moderated by Judah Freed, the resulting 69-minute debate (it ran long) was as entertaining as it was one-sided. An ABA rep did speak up briefly and state that they were monitoring the discussion, but the active debaters were so clustered on one side of ...
Well, I would not normally describe such a diverse group of individuals as a single side in any debate, but almost all the participants in today's debate showed up with the intent of arguing against Authors United. You can blame the polarizing effect of Authors United for that.
While there were several authors who took the position of AU, the discussion was in fact so one-sided that Hugh Howey decided to play Devil's Advocate and argue the other side. This led to unfortunate situations where a few participants who were encountering Howey for the first time took his tweets seriously.
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More at the source, including a link to a transcript pdf.
I'm wondering if the Axis of AU is even going to follow through and ever mail that letter.