9 June 2014
When I was in middle school, I remember being on the playground during kickball games and hearing the words that got everyone's attention: "Fight! Fight!" Those words would spread like wildfire and soon all the kids were standing in a circle to morbidly watch two boys duke out their differences. One was usually a bully trying to intimidate another kid.
Today, the media and publishing industries are circling around Amazon and Hachette with similar morbid curiosity to watch them duke it out over e-book margins. As their showdown continues, though, few people seem to notice a bigger problem: authors are being used as pawns and suffering collateral damage. And, few seem to care about the shrapnel they're taking.
