More Writers Object To Amazon Policies

A number of German writers have now joined the chorus protesting Amazon’s policy promoting e-books, alleging that the online retailing giant delays or fails to promote the products of those authors whose publishers do not agree to Amazon’s pricing policies. In an open letter released Monday, the writers, whose numbers include Nobel Prize for Literature winner Elfriede Jelinek, say that “`Amazon uses authors and their books as a bargaining chip to exact deeper discounts,'” and that Amazon misrepresents the availability of books to customers. More here from the New York Times.