Why can’t we all just get along?

[stacia_kane]

A little note in advance: I’m about to rant. I may rant at some length. I’m ranting about something other people have ranted about, as well. So be warned.

So here’s what happened. Wednesday, the New York Times ran an article about the Kindle and how many Kindle owners are now buying more books than they used to. The end of the article contained the

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[stacia_kane]

I totally believe it's just business. But that's kind of my point; that because it's business we need to behave professionally, which means not going on some snipey little witch-hunt or whining to readers about our paychecks.

But yes, most of this should go to the publishers. They should be handling piracy (one of my publishers, Simon & Schuster, recently announced a new anti-piracy initiative) and they should be hearing readers on the subject of pricing and release dates. I don't control those but I don't really want to, either; because this is business, I prefer to let the people with experience handle those things, just like I let their sales teams handle getting my books into stores.

I also believe the business of publishing has always been pretty cutthroat, it's just nobody really knew about it before the internet. :-)

I don't know. I guess I look at the authors who behaved so horribly and see them as amateurish, to be honest. Whatever credits they may have are irrelevant to me compared with how childish and creepy their behavior was, you know? Just like writers who harangue review sites; it's unprofessional, and it's entitled, and it's rude, and I don't think that's publishing so much as those particular authors. JMO, of course.