Authors take aim at Amazon over fight with publisher
Clip: 9/29/2014 | 5m 52s
Jeffrey Brown discusses with novelist Roxana Robinson, president of the Author’s Guild.
Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Ursula Le Guin and many other notable authors have joined a public fight against Amazon for wielding its commercial power against publisher Hachette in a dispute over the price of e-books. Jeffrey Brown discusses the writers’ concerns with novelist Roxana Robinson, president of the Author’s Guild.
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Authors take aim at Amazon over fight with publisher
Clip: 9/29/2014 | 5m 52s
Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Ursula Le Guin and many other notable authors have joined a public fight against Amazon for wielding its commercial power against publisher Hachette in a dispute over the price of e-books. Jeffrey Brown discusses the writers’ concerns with novelist Roxana Robinson, president of the Author’s Guild.
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