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Search: About Contact Inform Us The Authors Guild The Authors Guild Advocacy Blog Services Publications News & Notes For Members Join Membership The Authors Guild has been the published writer's advocate for effective copyright, fair contracts, and free expression since 1912. More... Publishing's Ecosystem on the Brink: The Backstory January 31, 2012. Subtlety is out. Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 25th cover shows a book engulfed in flames. The book’s title? “Amazon Wants to Burn the Book Business.” A towering pile of books dominates the front page of Sunday’s NYT Business Section. The pile starts well below the fold (print edition), breaks through the section header at the top of the page, and leans precariously. Books are starting to tumble off. “The Bookstore’s Last Stand,” reads the headline. These stories capture pretty well the state of book publishing: this appears to be no ordinary, cyclical crisis that future authors and publishers will shrug off. To understand how the book industry got into this predicament, however, a broader perspective may be needed. The cover story of February’s Harper’s Magazine provides that, discussing a fundamental shift in the federal approach to antitrust law that’s affected bookselling and countless other industries. It’s a story that hasn’t previously been told in a major periodical, to our knowledge. We’ll get to that in a moment. First, let’s set the stage with the other two stories. More... Contracts on Fire: Amazon's Lending Library Mess November 14, 2011. Are any of the books in Amazon’s new e-book subscription/lending program properly there? Earlier this month, Amazon launched its Kindle Online Lending Library as a perk for its best group of customers, the millions who’ve paid $79 per year to join Amazon Prime and get free delivery of their Amazon purchases. Under the Lending Library program, Amazon Prime members are allowed to download for free onto their Kindles any of more than 5,000 books. Customers are limited to one book per month and one book at a time – when a new book is downloaded, the old one disappears from the Kindle. The program has caused quite a stir in the publishing industry, for good reason (as you'll see). First, let’s look at how books from some major U.S. trade publishers wound up on the Lending Library list. More... Authors Groups From U.K., Canada, Norway and Sweden Join Authors Guild, Australian Society of Authors, and Quebec Writers Union in Suit Against HathiTrust October 6, 2011. We filed an amended complaint this morning against HathiTrust, the University of Michigan and four other universities over the storage and use of millions of copyright-protected books. The press release follows. NEW YORK – The U.K. Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, the Norwegian Nonfiction Writers and Translators Association, the Swedish Writers Union,
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