Well, they are trying to avoid biting the other hand that feeds them, the traditional publishers. They are used to living in a world where publishers hold the

Well, they are trying to avoid biting the other hand that feeds them, the traditional publishers. They are used to living in a world where publishers hold the power over authors. Alienating a few authors matters much less than alienating a few publishers. The rise of self-publishing, enabled by Amazon and the likes, would be to some extent a reversal of the existing power dynamics. But asking authors to join them in opposing this reversal of power is absurd, when it is clearly to authors' advantage, as we can see with Koskas. They can't expect authors to enjoy being at the mercy of publishers.