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Old 04-07-2016, 12:56 PM   #181
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Originally Posted by fjtorres View Post
No, they didn't fight *very* hard...
They only resisted for six months of public insults, calls for boycotts, being compared to murderous military dictators...

That industry insider, btw, makes his living as a consultant to tradpub. How many accounts would he keep if he publicly told people (authors!) that the reason their income went down was the publishers' fault?

The comment I saw came to him *third hand* via an agent.

Calling the statement propaganda is being kind.

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
― Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked
Then explain HMH, or S&S. The first we heard of those negotiations was when they were over.
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