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| The ultimate cyber bully, Amazon targets authors to hurt publishers. (GrowMap.com) |
The authors, writers, wordsmiths, and novelists are angry with Amazon. Stephen King stands among them as they post an open letter to Amazon.
The authors are not taking sides, but are asking Amazon to stop using authors as leverage every time they have a negotiating problem with a publisher.
In an interview with CBS, best selling author Douglas Preston explained that Amazon has a track record of this stuff with everyone from small press to large houses such as McMillian. “Every time they run into a rough patch with the publisher, they target the authors’ books. They delay the sale of them. They pull the same tricks they’re pulling with Hachette. Not discounting them, not taking pre-orders.”
Preston claims that his personal Amazon book sales, which account for more than half of his gross, have dropped 62-90% once the giant started using him for leverage against his publisher. Amazon is also reportedly using underhanded techniques like every time a customer clicks on a Hachette book, a pop-up window appears and suggests that make a different selection that is from another author at a better discount.
The letter encourages people to write Amazon and let them know what the readers think.
Stephen King is among the authors that signed the open letter.
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