By Slanted Light

Lol, I would believe it, but rats! *g*

Good to hear about Think of England, I might give it a try. I'm feeling brave about m/m books at the moment, having enjoyed Flight of the Magpie and A Death at the Dionysus Club - perhaps I've venture to someone new again! I'm keeping my eyes out for a few paperbacks that should be coming up from Samhain - the next Enlightenment one (I think that was Samhain), and I'm hoping there'll be another Magpie book too, though that might be a while away... In the meantime, thank goodness Melissa Scott publishes simultaneously in paperback! *g*

I'd like to hear that Amazon (and many other corporations) were paying their corporation tax in the UK, since they make so much money from us. I don't know quite enough about what's going on with Hatchette etc to be able to give an informed opinion right now, but as you say it's not entirely a clear-cut case in that the other side are wonderfully good guys either. There are various of Amazon's other policies that I've not liked though, trying to tie people and marketplace sellers into their own control - in their lives outside the Amazon shops as well as within them.

Mind you, I've just been reading about Workforce again, where companies and charities are being paid to hire people as workers without paying those workers so that they're no longer "unemployed" - and if they refuse to accept such appalling work conditions, their benefit is stopped in punishment... Amazon virtually pales beside that (presuming that they can't be part of it, of course, since they're not "based" in the UK...) But I shan't get started (more *g*) - I shall go fill my hot water bottle and get to bed!