As with anything, more people equals more potential marks to exploit. I dont think hes saying that every publisher is rotten, but that any publisher could be rotten. Excerpt: The next time the Wall Street Journal runs an article claiming the judge in the price-fixing trial was biased and calling her “a disgrace to the judiciary“, ask them why they didn’t disclose that the Wall Street Journal is owned by NewsCorp, which also owns HarperCollins – one of the five major publishers who illegally colluded to fix the price of e-books. The next time the New York Times acts as an uncritical mouthpiece for a pro-publisher organization which has just spent $104,000 on a full-page spread, ask them why they don’t direct similar moral outrage towards publishers who are cheating writers out of contractually agreed royalties. Ask them why the only time they mention Author Solutions is in an uncritical or even glowing manner (like here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). Ask them if it’s anything to do with the amount of money that publishers (and Author Solutions) spend on advertising. The next time Publishers Weekly leads a crusade against Amazon, claiming to defend the values of this business, ask them how much money they make from Author Solutions advertising. Ask them if this is the reason why they never subject the most successful author scamming operation in the world to any level of scrutiny, and instead print puff pieces like this, this, this this, this, this, this, this, this and this.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 08:02:33 +0000
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