Writers uniting against Amazon
Authors United created on the initiative of the American playwright Douglas Preston,
in June 2014 issued a letter to the President of the organization of Amazon Jeff Bezos (Jeff Bezos) with the requirement to resolve the conflict with Hachette,
which " blocks and delays the sale of books ", as It was, for example, in the case of the last book of Joanne Rowling. This letter was signed by the authors, which included Authors in United.
Their task a new group of writers sees a long-term strategy to counter Amazon if the requirements set forth in the letter
will not be satisfied.
Amazon's complaints writers was to offer payments to authors Hachette 100 % of the royalties from the sale of e-books, as are the dialogues between the publishing house and shop. In other words, the authors were able to get everything that you earn from the sales of both parties. After informing about the creation of Authors United Chapter amazonaws.com Department for the implementation of content for the Kindle, Russ Grandinetti (Russ Grandinetti) made a motion to pay the regular royalty, and that is earned from sales, to send to literary charity,
until will not be achieved agreement between Amazon and Hachette.
for its part, the group of 27 independent writers published the petition in support of Amazon. The document was signed by more than seven thousand people.
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