More than 100 German writers have had enough. In a letter of protest to criticize the business practices of Amazon. Take the Internet department store before to manipulate lists of recommendations and to force discounts.
More than 100 German writers have the US-Internet store Amazon criticized for its business practices. In a protest letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, on Thursday quoted from the “Handelsblatt”, it says: “Amazon manipulated recommendation lists Amazon takes authors and their books her as leverage to force even more discounts..” Among the first signatories include writers such as Ingrid Noll (“The Apothecary”), Nele Neuhaus (“Summer of Truth”), Eva Rossmann (“Men Fallen”), “Tatort” author Fred Breinersdorfer and investigative journalist Günther Wallraff.
“We need to educate the reader”
regulators Venske, general secretary of the PEN center of Germany, the newspaper said: “We need to educate the reader that the manipulation of recommendation lists and the delayed delivery books whose publishers fight back against Amazon, the Amazon are everyday. ” The CEO of the Federation of young authors, Tobias Kywitt, said: “We authors are of the opinion that no bookseller hinder the sale of books or even customers may discourage the purchase of books.” The authors lament loudly “Handelsblatt” that Amazon is slowing the deliveries of books of individual publishers
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The open letter was to be published at the beginning of next week, according to the report. The letter of protest to the German writer following the protest of more than 900 US-writers such as Stephen King or John Grisham, who had criticized the actions of Amazon in the dispute over e-book prices. Amazon notes that books would be cheaper because they stand in competition with other media.
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