Challenged by more than 900 authors, Amazon has invited readers to take a position in its conflict with the American publisher Hachette Book Group (HBG), a subsidiary of French group Lagardère. To do this, the online retailer has posted the email address of the owner of HBG.
Amazon did not hesitate to make public in a letter published on the website www.readersunited.com the email address CEO of HBG, Michael Pietsch. He urges readers to write to him to pressure and tilt the balance of his side in this trade dispute that has lasted more than five months.
“We believe that making books accessible is good for culture. We need you. Please write to Hachette and put us a copy, “writes Amazon.
The American group even suggests the types claims, including the One is to accuse Hachette “illegal agreement” to maintain high prices for e-books. “We noticed you cartel. Please stop doing anything to overcharge electronic books,” he suggests.
Defender cheap
Amazon and reiterates arguments repeated since July. He is defending lower prices for e-books. He said they “can and should be cheaper” because they no longer printing costs, storage or delivery.
Amazon and Hachette have for several months in the United States of strained trade negotiations. To pressure the publisher, the online retailer has reduced its inventory from Hachette and has stopped taking preorders for the authors it publishes ..
As the paperback
To solidify its defense, Amazon makes a parallel with the struggle of the defenders of the paperback in the 30s, for example, Amazon says the British writer George Orwell advised publishers to unite to kill the paperback .
Amazon This new offensive comes on the eve of the publication in the New York Times with a full page advertisement in a petition signed by more than 900 authors asking Amazon to stop his showdown with Hachette.
The letter, signed by bestselling authors like John Grisham or Stephen King, was initiated by Douglas Preston, an American writer of horror novels. These authors provide not taking sides in the conflict but feel hijacked
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