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| Author Ian McEwan has said he is concerned at the "preponderance" of US-based giant Amazon in the book market |
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bookseller Amazon has come under fire from Booker Prize-winning author Ian
McEwan, who said the company should "pay its taxes like the rest of
us".
McEwan
said he is concerned at the "preponderance" of the US-based giant in
the book market and he would like to see "three or four Amazons" to
prevent the harmful effects of monopoly provision.
But
the author, whose latest novel The Children Act is released this week, admitted
that he uses Amazon himself, describing it as being "like some delicious
drug" he cannot resist.
Press Association reports McEwan
told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme: "I do worry about the preponderance
of Amazon, and many publishers have been in direct conflict with it.
"Giant
monopolies are never good for any enterprise and of course I would like it to
be paying its taxes like the rest of us."
But
asked if he personally boycotts the website, he admitted: "The trouble is
it is like some delicious drug - you can't really resist it.
"I
have forsworn it many times, but then I want a book the next morning, so I am
like everyone else.
"I
would just like there to be three or four Amazons, that's what I would
like."
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