As we were first to report mid-day Wednesday, bestselling author Douglas Preston has been circulating by email an open letter from authors to their readers, objecting to how Amazon has “directly targeted Hachette’s authors in an effort to force their publisher to agree to its terms,” enlisting signatories. (Preston’s forthcoming book THE LOST ISLAND, co-authored by Lincoln Child and due August 5, has been directly affected by Amazon’s removal of pre-orders for HBG titles.) On Wednesday morning, when we obtained the email, that effort “seems to have gone viral,” Preston told us, after a few weeks of his “quietly working on […]