Many members of the literary community have shown great concern about the Amazon vs. Hachette dispute. In an interview with the Financial Times weekend magazine, Malcolm Gladwell spoke out in disapproval of the online retail giant’s retaliatory actions.
While Gladwell did not voice an opinion about the actual feud, he objects to Amazon’s practice of making Hachette’s books unavailable for purchase and delaying order shipments. Gladwell “thought Amazon wanted to be nice to me. I thought their endgame was to woo authors. So, then why are they sabotaging us?”
Gladwell joined more than 900 others writers, many whose books are not published by Hachette, to form a group called Authors United. The organization posted a letter addressed to the Amazon board of directors on its website. Other writers who have publicly spoken out about this ongoing quarrel include The Fault in Our Stars author John Green, American Gods author Neil Gaiman, and The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert. What do you think?
