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Originally Posted by HarryT
Whatever this may be, it's not "blackmail", and I would strongly urge you, Nate, to remove that word from the title. Blackmail is defined as "extortion of money or something else of value from a person by the threat of exposing a criminal act or discreditable information. ". Have these authors committed criminal acts which Amazon are threatening to expose?
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That is not the definition according to
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/blackmail
"The crime involving a threat for purposes of compelling a person to do an act against his or her will, or for purposes of taking the person's money or property."