«Big Pub basically runs its own monopoly over writers,» a
commenter on a New
York Times article retorted, and I received an email about the Amazon - Hachette clash in which the writer complained of «the impossibility of a non-NYC writer just getting his foot in the door without sleeping with professors, visiting authors, publishers; without an M.F.A.; or without publications in major magazines (100 percent of which are supplied by agents).