Manhattan Judge Denny Chin has extended the deadline for a settlement to be reached between the Authors Guild and Google Books until 2012, reports Reuters. The Guild, along with the Association of American Publishers, sued Google Books back in 2005 for scanning and digitally publishing books still under copyright. A settlement was reached but Read More
The Authors Guild weighed in today on Odyssey Editions, the Wylie Agency-Amazon imprint set to release e-books independent of traditional publishers. According to an email sent to authors, The Guild supports the agency’s right to sell backlist e-book titles, but does have concerns about “serious potential conflicts of interest”:
The most obvious Read More
“Writing as a form of suffering is no longer possible when you publish yourself,” Garrison Keillor told the audience at the Authors’ Guild Gala last night at Tribeca Roof. “When you become your own publicist, you have to interview yourself.”
Mr. Keillor riffed on the gloom accompanying the heralded death of print and the deprofessionalization Read More
