Me and Salinger and Patterson an’ Them

So . . . what do I have in common with J.D. Salinger and James Patterson and Malcolm Gladwell and Stephen Colbert? (Besides a loyal following who view me as a god, I mean?)
We— and a whole lot of other folks— are now caught in the middle in yet another battle between Amazon and a publisher, in this case Hachette/Little, Brown, the science fiction imprint of which is Orbit.
We Orbit writers have for the last couple weeks been discussing among ourselves the fact that our novels, while still in pr...