Authors United May Have a Point
I’m a bit sick to death of the Amazon-Hachette dispute. Mainly because it’s a case of one corporate giant against another. Another thing that is troubling is the absolute cheerleading for Amazon that comes from the self-publishing side. While Authors United has made some egregiously overboard claims, Amazon isn’t entirely above reproach.
Today, literary heavyweights have joined the Authors United cause, including Philip Roth, Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, V. S. Naipaul and Milan Kundera.
Ursula K. Le Guin sounds a bit unhinged when she says,
[…]“We’re talking about censorship: deliberately making a book hard or impossible to get, ‘disappearing’