The authors of Hachette accuse Amazon boycott of their books – Macity

A group of nearly 1,000 writers, he bought a page of the New York Times published a letter against Amazon, accusing it in various ways to boycott the sale of books published by the publisher Hachette.

A group of nearly 1000 writers, most of them Americans, he bought a page of the New York Times published a letter against Amazon, accusing it in various ways to boycott the sale of books published by the publisher Hachette.

Signed by authors such as Douglas Preston, John Grisham, Stephen King, Malcolm Gladwell and Nora Roberts, the letter calls Amazon “in the strongest terms to stop damaging the authors on which he built his business.” The dispute between Amazon and Hachette going on for a few months and bone of contention is the price of the ebook: Amazon would like to apply a steep discount, thus reducing revenues publisher; Hachette does not want to, then coming or not an agreement. The company’s e-commerce would meanwhile voluntarily adopted strategies to boycott the publisher, lengthening the time of shipment or preventing you from doing pre-orders on the books in output. “None of us earn, neither readers nor the authors, when the books are taken hostage” is mentioned in the letter.

In the header of the letter, Preston and other writers invite readers to write Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, explaining what they think about this.

Amazon a few days ago had published a letter on www.readersunited.com explaining to readers that from the price and on the -book all – publisher, author and reader – we earn: since the book is sold at a lower price but in larger amounts, such as to allow a profit for the publisher and the author.

Amazon is involved in such battles not only with Hachette, but also with many small publishers, ringalluzzita by the recent decision of a court of the United States has condemned Apple accused of in agreement with five publishers raised the price of electronic books.