Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos

Amazon.com’s board will be the next group to be dragged into a months-long dispute between the online retailer and publishing giant Hachette.

Authors United, a group of writers represented by Hachette and supportive of its cause, plan to begin sending letters to Amazon.com’s board of directors noting that the online retailer’s image is being tarnished as part of the dispute. Members of Amazon.com’s board include Seattle venture capitalist Tom Alberg; Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; Patty Stonesifer, formerly of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Thomas Ryder, former CEO of Reader’s Digest.

“Efforts to impede or block the sale of books have a long and ugly history,” reads the letter which The New York Times says will be posted to the group’s website on Monday. “Do you, personally, want to be associated with this?”

This isn’t the first time that the group — made up of authors including John Grisham, Stephen King and more than 900 others— have taken Amazon.com task in the dispute. Last month, they called out the company’s tactics.

“As writers — most of us not published by Hachette — we feel strongly that no bookseller should block the sale of books or otherwise prevent or discourage customers from ordering or receiving the books they want,” the group wrote in the letter to Jeff Bezos. “It is not right for Amazon to single out a group of authors, who are not involved in the dispute, for selective retaliation. Moreover, by inconveniencing and misleading its own customers with unfair pricing and delayed delivery, Amazon is contradicting its own written promise to be “Earth’s most customer-centric company.”

Historically, Amazon.com has brushed off PR attacks of this nature, including a brutal assault by comedian Stephen Colbert earlier this year.

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