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Craig Whitney's avatar

Agree. What is the public interest in whether best-selling authors' advances might get smaller? DOJ put the cart before the horse.

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Steve Wasserman's avatar

Completely agree.

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Felicia Eth's avatar

Absolutely. How the status of the vast majority of authors was overlooked completely baffles me. Plus the issue of S&S ending up being bought either by another major publisher or private equity

way less likely to be hands off, seemed never to be considered. Once again the ‘reality’ of publishing was far less focused in than the ‘glitz’ - a real disservice in my opinion.

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David A. Andelman's avatar

Indeed, there are many of us who have pubbed 5 books and never received a $250,000 advance ! So bravo, Peter, for highlighting a central issue, perhaps THE central issue of these proceedings!!

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