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August 26, 2015

Wednesday News: AU v. Amazon; Wine Train apologizes to book club; Knopf editor talks editing; and a dad says yes to dolls for his son

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / anti-trust / Authors United / Book-club / Department of Justice / discrimination / editors / gender norms / micro aggression / parenting / publishing3 Comments

Is Amazon Creating a Cultural Monopoly? – As much as I admire the tenacity of the Authors United group, their singular fixation on Amazon feels more and more like publisher pressure by proxy. I remember Jon Sargent trying to make the value argument about Agency Pricing – that more valuable ... more >

October 7, 2014

On the “specialness” of books

JanetLetters of OpinionAuthors United / Books / bookselling / consumer goods / reading / value68 Comments

We’re all familiar with the assertion that books are “special,” and therefore deserving of different treatment than other commercial products. I used believe it myself. Until, that is, folks like Jon Sargent and Authors United started using it to justify crap like agency pricing and the shunning of Amazon. To ... more >

September 26, 2014

Friday News: Authors United to call on the DOJ, Amtrak’s Writers Residency project, Olivia Pope’s popularity, and more banned books to read

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Amtrak / antitrust / Authors United / Banned-Books / censorship / gender / Hachette / publishing / television11 Comments

Authors United’s Next Move: DOJ – Apparently this story originally appears in the Financial Times, but since the site has a paywall, I’m not going to link to it. So not many details beyond the fact that Authors United is now urging the Department of Justice ti investigate Amazon. Does ... more >

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September 16, 2014

Tuesday News: Authors United insult just about everyone, Robin Thicke’s deposition disaster, LEGO’s gender trouble, and portraits of Black Victorians

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Authors United / copyright / declaratory judgment / deposition / gender / History / photography / publishing / Race / Victorian England23 Comments

Letter to Amazon.com, Inc. board of directors – It was difficult to pick out the most offensive passage in this Authors United letter to the Amazon board of directors. From the Eurocentric insult to China and Chinese authors, to the misperception that books are not commercial products (does this mean ... more >

July 24, 2014

Thursday News: Popular French blogger sued, authors hope to solve the Amazon-Hachette dispute, a bookmark that “reminds” readers to finish a book, and a case of real life amnesia

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / amnesia / authors / Authors United / blogging / Google / Hachette / lawsuit / readers / reviews / technology19 Comments

French blogger fined over review’s Google search placing – This is super-crazy and super-scary. A French blogger who wrote a negative restaurant review was ruled against because she had a significant blog following and because the review placed too high in the Google rankings. The French judge who made this ... more >

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