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January 20, 2015Intelligence Squared audience decide Amazon isn’t the reader’s friend

As heralded in Teleread earlier, self-publishing poster child Joe Konrath and Matthew Yglesias, Executive Editor of Vox, appeared against Franklin Foer, former editor of The New Republic, and attorney and author Scott Turow, in the Intelligence Squared debate in New York , last weekend, arguing the motion: “Amazon is the reader’s friend.” And whatever one thinks of […]

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January 19, 2015Intelligence Squared Debates Amazon's Impact on Readers, Authors, and the Book Industry

In light of Amazon’s growing dominance in the book market and its recent and very public negotiations with Big 5 publisher Hachette, Intelligence Squared -- a global forum for debate -- hosted a live stream event on Thursday, January 15, 2015, asking four panelists to support or reject the statement, “Amazon Is the Reader’s Friend.”

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