http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/the-right-battle.html
On the other hand, PW notes:
Despite reports that the two parties were discussing ways to restore Macmillan’s buy buttons yesterday, customers were still unable to buy Macmillan titles directly from the Amazon site, including Winter Garden, the just released title from Kristin Hannah for which St. Martin’s took out a full page ad in today’s New York Times.
This won’t be over for a long time yet, but the implications are huge. One of the best parts of this, though, is that readers are (hopefully, finally) beginning to appreciate what goes into actually publishing a book and a view into the publishing world in general. I’m very hopeful that this type of energetic advocacy will help us not go the way of the music industry. (And, yeah, don’t think the irony escapes me: that the same company, Apple, which almost single-handedly did in that industry–although swap sites and pirates got in on the act, too–has now fired the first salvo over books.)
