>'We also take seriously the impact it has when, however infrequently, such a business interruption affects authors. We've offered to Hachette to fund 50% of an author pool - to be allocated by Hachette - to mitigate the impact of this dispute on author royalties, if Hachette funds the other 50%. We did this with the publisher Macmillan some years ago. We hope Hachette takes us up on it.'
Wonderfully slick move.
It makes Amazon look good, Hachette look bad and builds good will with the authors and spectators while turning the screws on the economic pressure that Hachette is already facing.