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Originally Posted by mcl
The problem here is that the authors are up in arms against the retailer and the consumer, because how dare we take issue with an entire publisher and harm all those innocent authors! We the customers must spend money to support the authors! (See Scalzi's blog for a particularly abhorrent, yet almost verbatim reiteration of this position).
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I know you're not a fan of Scalzi at the moment, but that's a pretty big freakin' misrepresentation of what he posted. Here's an exact quote from Scalzi (emphasis added):
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So rather than focus on what should happen to Amazon or Macmillan, here’s an idea, and here’s my point: let’s us focus on the writers, who are getting kinda screwed here. None of this is their fault, it has nothing to do with them, and they don’t deserve to lose sales and their livelihood while this thing goes down. If you want to make a statement here, don’t make it against a corporation, who isn’t listening anyway. Make it for someone, and someone who will appreciate the support.
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It's incredibly clear that he's not saying, "You must go buy author's books!" He saying that
if you want to show some support, the best way to do it is to buy their books from someone who is actually willing to sell them. There's no "must" in there, just "if you want to".
I also don't see any place where he rails against the consumer. It's apparent to anyone actually reading his posts that he's pissed at one entity: Amazon. That's it.