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Authors, agents and publishers will take to the stage to discuss Amazon's place in free-market capitalism, its ongoing dispute with Hachette and the future of the publishing industry on Tuesday 1st July in the US.
The event, taking place at the New York Public Library, will see author James Patterson and Grove Atlantic publisher and president, Morgan Entrekin, join attorney and founder of EMusic.com, Bob Kohn, Law professor and theorist, Tim Wu and political theorist and elected chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Danielle Allen in conversation moderated by Tina Bennett, literary agent at WME, titled "Amazon: Business As Usual?".
The discussion will focus on the Hachette-Amazon dispute, exploring what is at stake for the companies, authors and readers. It will also look at the larger issues of free-market capitalism and free speech at play, and what the dispute reveals about the future of publishing in the age of e-books.
Bestselling author Patterson has previously spoken out against Amazon and last year donated $1million of his own money to independent bookshops in the US.
LIVE from the NYPL is supported by Celeste Bartos, Mahnaz Ispahani Bartos and Adam Bartos, and the Margaret and Herman Sokol Public Education Endowment Fund. It will take place from 12-2 a.m. GMT (7-9 p.m. local time).