By Edward Nawotka

Amazon’s support of a long list of non-profit literary entities has a long list of detractors. Perhaps the most vocal critic of the program is Dennis Loy Johnson, publishers of Melville House Press, whose MobyLives blog keeps a laser focus on “our friends in Seattle.” Today, in our pages, Bryce Milligan, publisher of Wings Press, takes aim at Amazon’s giving. He writes, in part:

…there is clearly a case to be made that this is marketing masquerading as philanthropy—not unusual—but with the double intent of encouraging silence from the very organizations most likely to be vociferous in objecting to Amazon’s predatory actions against independent publishers, distributors and bookstores. In short, a Trojan Horse?

Do you agree? Disagree? Should the organizations supported by Amazon’s giving be concerned?

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