PBS NewsHour

Authors take aim at Amazon over fight with publisher

Clip: 09/29/2014 | 5m 52s

Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Ursula Le Guin and many other notable authors have joined a public fight against Amazon for wielding its commercial power against publisher Hachette in a dispute over the price of e-books. Jeffrey Brown discusses the writers’ concerns with novelist Roxana Robinson, president of the Author’s Guild.

Aired: 09/29/14

Rating: NR

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