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amazon has taken the preorder buttons off her new hachette book the silkworm, a vicious tactic by amazon's c.e.o. jeff bezos, or should i say lord bezo-mort. and this-- this has pushed me past my tipping point. i think. because i'm still waiting for my copy of hachette novell novel the tipping point. i tell you what, amazon, i have got a little package for you right here, okay. this package is care of me, jk rowling and explaino the clown here, okay. all right? it is shipped immediately and a lot of packaging, all right. and i think you're really going to like it. oh, wait a second. here it. (applause) wlingz wlingz ouxz xz wauted xz-- oh, wait, amazon, customers that enjoy this also bought this. (laughter) (applause) so watch out bezos, because this means war. an sure amazon may have an army of drones but hachette has-- whatever a hachette is. i'm going say a tiny french hachette. and here to help me fight back is winner of the national book award and the ken faulkner award my fellow amazon victim sherman alexie, thank you so much for coming on. >> thank you. >> good to see you. you want

rowling's new book silkworm, you can. -- how manydelayed times?kwill finally sell the even though they are in a fight with the publisher. sale,ore the book went on it was on pre-order for a month. website,et it on the and amazon was telling me what goes on sale can get it. you could go to walmart, or barnes & noble, and it was selling for less. the real story is that walmart, barnes & noble, and apple have been trying to take advantage of this boy that amazon has le ft by not selling publisher books. it is selling 40% off all of these publisher books. analyst whog to an says it gives companies like ours and noble a do over. if you go to their books, it gives them a chance to promote other things to you. >> are the publishers close to a deal? >> no. thecan tell because thousands of other titles are not for sale on amazon. even if the books do go on sale now, what winds up happening is that hurts pre-orders. and for authors, pre-orders are the holy grail of sales. sales or anarter of author come from b cells. the more you sell before the book comes

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