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Novelists Saunders, Spiotta Join 900 Decrying Strong-Arm Amazon Tactics

Novelists Saunders, Spiotta Join 900 Decrying Strong-Arm Amazon Tactics By JIM KEVLIN • allotsego.com Local writers George Saunders and Dana Spiotta were among 900 authors who took out a two-page ad in today’s New York Times decrying Amazon “directly targetting” authors to extract contract concessions from their publisher, Hachette. Sherman Alexie, who delivered SUNY Oneonta’s Mills Distinguished Lecture last September after his 2007 novel “Flight” was the college’s first “common read,” also signed the ad. They join John Grisham, Stephen King, James Patterson…