Fair Contracts For Authors: Don’t Let Go Of Your Copyright
Novelists Inc. Plans Authors Guild Session There’s news this week from the roughly 900-member Novelists Inc. (NINC) organization that the Authors Guild will present a special session on rights...
View ArticleCan authors compete with ‘non-competes’?
‘An unacceptable restriction on authors’ livelihoods’ No publisher would agree, at an author’s request, to forgo publishing another author’s book on a particular subject. So why should an author assume...
View ArticleThe Authors Guild Survey’s Self-Selected Sample: More Fuel On The Fire?
First, The Bad News While some parts of the Authors Guild’s survey of writers’ income had been released earlier, the writer-advocacy organization has now produced its full report. The news, while not...
View ArticleYour Survey Of Surveys
‘Perspective on the Book Business’ Is there any industry so feverishly bent on surveying itself as publishing? This week, my colleague Philip Jones at The Bookseller in Taking a measure of the...
View ArticleAge, Surveys, And Income: The Authors Guild’s View
‘Only One Piece Of The Puzzle’ Subsequent to our report on the Authors Guild’s release of results from its 2015 Member Survey, I’ve invited the Guild to provide some interpretation of how it sees the...
View ArticleCalling For Updated Writer-Payment Practices: Authors Guild & Society of Authors
‘By Forcing The Issue In Book Contracts’ The US Authors Guild is making common cause this month with its counterparts across the Atlantic, the Society of Authors. These are lead advocacy bodies for the...
View Article2016: An International Coalition of Author Advocacy Challenges Publishing...
The author contract battle goes global Dated today, 5th January, the Authors Guild’s open letter to the Association of American Publishers leads the loudest call yet for contract reform in publishing’s...
View ArticleAuthors United’s Divisive Stand on Amazon
Authors Unlimited's 3-hour event at New America warned that Amazon's market position will cause "long-term effects on the global book trade." The post Authors United’s Divisive Stand on Amazon appeared...
View ArticleCuba’s Book Embargo Tackled by Trade With White House Petitions
Key players in the American publishing community are unified in their call for a lift of the US book embargo of Cuba; a public petition is also up. The post Cuba’s Book Embargo Tackled by Trade With...
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Translators’ Challenges Ahead
Only 14 of 205 respondents to the Authors Guild’s unprecedented survey said that all their income is from translation. Almost 80 percent said they earn less than half their income from translation....
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