Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary

Michael Perry, editor of Inkling Books, wrote an editorial on why he officially objected to the Google Book Settlement.
Meljean Brook, author of the Guardian series, wonders why Google couldn’t have asked for permission first before scanning and why Authors’ Guild is pursuing this settlement which requires authors to opt out.
Epublishers Weekly has a video presentation [...]

Earlier today I read this report Photos and Video From the National Federation of The Blind’s Kindle 2 Protest at the technology news blog, Gizmodo, about a street protest held by members of the National Federation of the Blind against the Author’s Guild.
As Gizmodo reports:

“Basically the story is this: the Author’s Guild raised issue with [...]

Remember Authors’ Guild? You know, the entity that hauled Google into court so that it could create a settlement agreement granting Google a copyright monopoly that it hadn’t had previously so that AG could get a tiny piece of the Google pie?  Authors’ Guild, who allowed, as a part of the settlement terms that orphaned [...]

Authors Guild is determined to further alienate ebook readers with its latest cease and desist order. There is a new startup company called DuroSport that is hawking a “Smell of Book” product. I suppose it is to address those who fetishize the smell of books and can’t give up paper books for digital copies [...]