Authors United May Not Want to Admit It, but Most Books Are Consumer Goods Like Any Other
As my colleague Laura Owen has reported, Authors United - a group of writers who are upset at the tactics Amazon is using to negotiate with the French publisher Hachette - has posted a letter to the company's board of directors, arguing that the online retailer is being unfair to authors. Among other things, the group says Amazon is making a mistake by treating books like any other consumer product.
In fact, in a somewhat bizarre turn of events for a group that is supposedly protesting Amazon's methods
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