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All the Amazon-Hachette coverage doesn’t seem to cover some important causes and implications

June 3, 2014 by Mike Shatzkin 132 Comments

A great deal has been written in many venues about the current tussle between dominant Internet retailer Amazon and one of the three smallest of book publishing’s Big Five general trade houses, Hachette Book Group. Although neither side has been particularly explicit about the precise points of contention, both what I read and what I […]

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