Amazon Used Book Sales Draw Author Ire

From the NY Times:

Authors are rebelling against new efforts by Amazon.com (news/quote) to spur sales of used books, a practice that has become a major source of revenue for Amazon but pays nothing to writers or publishers.

The Authors Guild, a trade group for writers, yesterday sent an e-mail message to its 8,200 members, advising them to stop helping Amazon sell books by linking to it from their own Web sites, citing Amazon\’s \”notorious used-book service.\”

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