Battery Eisler sets the stage, Konrath fisks...
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First, though the answers Rasenberger provides are entirely predictable (and indeed, have been debunked so many times they’re not worth addressing with anything more than a link or two), the questions themselves are revealing. Here’s a sample:
·How has Amazon’s abuse of its dominance in the book industry directly affected authors?
·How have Amazon’s punitive actions against publishers, such as Hachette during their 2014 contract dispute, impacted authors?
·According to some news reports, self-published authors who once thought of Amazon as their ally are now feeling victimized. Why is that?
·As Amazon continues to sell huge numbers of titles below cost and uses them as loss leaders to entice sales on other segments of its website, what will be the long-term effect on a thriving and robust literary marketplace? Holy “When did you stop beating your wife,” Batman!
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