21 July 2014
In recent months, America's publishing giants have been up in arms about the predatory practices of Amazon.com. Their outrage would be less hypocritical if they weren't guilty of conduct that's just as bad.
I'm an author. One of my books (Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times) was on the New York Times best seller list. Another (Missing) served as the basis for an Academy-Award-winning film. I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the average author isn't.
