Why the Amazon-Hachette Fight Matters and What It Means for Publishing

The Leonard Lopate Show | Nov 10, 2014

Vanity Fair contributor Keith Gessen explains why more than money is at stake in the publishing industry’s battle against Amazon’s e-book pricing. He looks at Amazon’s fight with Hachette and if it’s hurting Amazon’s reputation. For his article “The War of the Words,” in the December 2014 issue of Vanity Fair, Gessen speaks to publishing-industry insiders, Amazon Kindle engineers, and a lawyer whose class-action suit was followed by a federal complaint charging that publishers colluded to fix prices, and he traces how Amazon went from being the book industry’s savior to its enemy.

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