Authors Guild re: Wylie/Amazon

The Authors Guild weighs in on the Wylie/Odyssey/Amazon situation- and in doing so demonstrates a stark misunderstanding of American antitrust laws. They also, surprisingly, seem not to "get it" that in a free market the proprietors of copyrights (read as "authors and their estates") are entitled to dispose of those rights in any way they see fit, regardless of the "exclusivity" of any given deal. This is business, children, not Culture. Is the Authors Guild's position that Wylie's clients are too stupid to look out for their own interests? Wylie's deal could not have been put in place without their green light. Something tells me that the Nabakov and Mailer heirs, etc., and their advisors, are likely quite capable of making informed decisions. They, with their agent and his new imprint, have every right and perogative to proceed as their ambitions and logic dictate.