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Thursday | July 31, 2014
| Volume 2 | Issue 2309
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Quotation of the Day
Douglas Preston: 'We've Felt a Little Bit Betrayed by This'
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"I think most of us think that Amazon is a good company.
We're grateful to it for selling our books. We've been a partner to it, we've
been supporting Amazon from the very beginning, from the time it was a
start-up. And we've felt a little bit betrayed by this. I'm speaking to you
now, not as an official spokesman for anybody. That's how I felt personally,
and it's turned out a lot of other authors felt the same way....
 "I guess our feeling is that there are going to
be disputes between Amazon and publishers forever. There are going to be
negotiations... these are two large corporations. Is this going to be
Amazon's MO [mode of operation] from now on?--to hurt authors and
inconvenience their own customers every time they run into a rough patch
negotiating with a publisher? I guess our feeling is that that's not
acceptable."
--Author Douglas
Preston in an interview with Porter Anderson at the Bookseller's
FutureBook blog.
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