Guess what: Some people are on Amazon’s side in Amazon vs. Hachette

In Amazon and Hachette’s ongoing battle over a new contract, Amazon has received most of the blame -- and that’s probably not surprising since it’s the party cutting off pre-orders, messing with search and shipping Hachette books with multiweek delays.

Authors, in particular, have come out on Hachette’s side -- John Green, J. K. Rowling, James Patterson and Malcolm Gladwell (who shall henceforth be known as Explaino the Clown). So nobody’s on Amazon’s side, right? Well, not so fast. To every backlash there is a counter-backlash, and in recent days some pro-Amazon sentiment has trickled out -- or if it’s not fully pro-Amazon, exactly, it’s at least … conflicted. So who’s saying what? Here are the general themes:

• Hachette is a big company, too
• If authors hate Amazon so much, they should pull their books from it
• It’s complicated, i.e., everyone wants to make money.