Cory Doctorow on Nostr: The publisher merged with several others, and then several more, and then several ...
The publisher merged with several others, and then several more, and then several more - until it ended up a division of the #BigFive publisher #Hachette, who repeatedly, "accidentally" pushed my book into retail channels with DRM. I don't think Hachette deliberately set out to screw me over, but the fact that Hachette is (by far) the most doctrinaire proponent of DRM meant that when the chaos of its agglomerated state resulted in my being cheated, it was a happy accident.
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