Sargent And Bezos Offer Reparation To Authors Wounded In Trade War

[¿Proof of power in protest?]

Sargent And Bezos Offer Reparation To Authors Wounded In Trade War 

Posted at 8:08AM Wednesday 02 Feb 2011 
Remember the shooting war a year ago January when Amazon dimmed the Buy Buttons on Macmillan books over the issue of the agency etail business model?

A lot of authors were caught in the crossfire. But the CEO's of both companies have presented them with a gift to make it up to them.
http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/31757
http://ereads.com/2011/02/peace-dividend-sargent-and-bezos-offer-reparation-to-authors-wounded-in-trade-war.html
"...Macmillan and Amazon have jointly created an "Amazon Kindle Outage Adjustment" compensating them for royalties they would have received had the trade war not suspended business..."






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