RPT-Hachette authors urge Amazon board to end contract dispute
September 15, 2014 at 16:15 PM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 15 (Reuters) - More than 1,000 Hachette Book Group authors including Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen King and James Patterson have urged Amazon.com Inc's directors to end a contract dispute with their publisher that has cost some writers' 90 percent of their sales on the online retailer's website.