The CWA feels this practice is unfair to authors and also to the readers who are so supportive of the crime genre.

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These segue to the texts themselves, excellent pieces of literature that serve as introductions to forgotten authors and aspects of world literature most readers would never encounter.

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Many publishers are setting up their own e-book stores to help them promote the works of new authors and remind readers about the back catalogues of established writers.

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Offline, in places like Brooklyn, fans pack in-store events as much to meet authors and translators as to talk with like-minded readers.

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Over the past year, there has been more than a 400% increase in independent UK authors and publishers using KDP to share their books with the millions of Kindle readers worldwide.

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The authors and the publisher were deprived of income, as potential readers found other books to buy.

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But the authors have taken pains to answer those quibbles, and they disclose their sources so that readers can add or subtract as they see fit.

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Authors get to blissfully exist in a world where they can assume all their readers are geniuses and are focused on the right parts of the work.

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