Sentences with phrase «smoky backroom deals»

There is also, I believe, a real danger that part of the smoky backroom deals that the empowered traditional publishers make will be to promote their material over self - published works and even possibly deals to require the ghettoing of self - publishing in small and large ways.

We don't allow smoky backroom deals arrived at in collective bargaining to dictate the goals, structure, or existence of the public education system, so neither should we use that process to determine compensation and work condition policies.