Publishing NewsAuthors Guild / Book-club / digital books / discrimination / Google / lawsuit / marriage / Pulitzer-Prize / Russia7 Comments
100th Pulitzer prizes announced – Journalism awards, in particular, stood out this year, with the Los Angeles Times winning for their breaking coverage of the San Bernadino shooting, and digital media ProPublica and the Marshall Project’s collaborative win for explanatory reporting. The full list of winners can be found here, and ... more >
Publishing NewsApple / Authors Guild / bad sex award / how-to books / paid reviews / playwriting / price-fixing / screenwriting / Supreme Court9 Comments
In Amicus Brief, Authors Guild, ABA, B&N Back Apple – Not a surprise, right? The Authors Guild, in particular, has made their hatred of Amazon clear. And would any of us would disagree that competition is both desirable and beneficial? But Apple wasn’t found guilty of practicing agency pricing. And how is trying ... more >
Publishing Newsaddiction / Addyi / Authors Guild / brain chemistry / copyright / Facebook / Google / Hacking / intellectual property / love / public good / research / security / sexual dysfunction2 Comments
Google’s victory in book-scanning case is a huge win for fair use – Huzzah! Google’s book scanning has been found to be both fair use and transformative in nature by the Second Circuit. The Author’s Guild’s protracted litigation against Google (nearly ten years now!) had numerous problems along the way, but ... more >
Publishing NewsAuthors Guild / censorship / Comic-Con / digital royalties / Free Speech / publishing / reddit / Voat17 Comments
Welcome to Voat: Reddit killer, troll haven, and the strange face of internet free speech -With the recent trouble at Reddit — from charges of corporate-minded censorship (the platform is owned by Conde Nast) to the controversy over Ellen Pao’s termination (both from those who protested her position and those ... more >
Publishing News19th C / Authors Guild / backlists / book trailers / digital publishing / Fantasy / Game of Thrones / gender roles / History / literary reviews / Open Road / violence against women20 Comments
George R.R. Martin explains why there’s violence against women on Game of Thrones – In which George R.R. Martin uses the history excuse to explain the violence against women in his work. Because even though he writes about dragons, which are clearly fantasy, he sticks to “history” when it comes ... more >
Publishing Newsadaptations / Amazon / Authors Guild / fandoms / films / Google / research / television series4 Comments
Authors Guild warns authors over contributing online articles for free – So does each new president of the Author’s Guild undergo some kind of organizational mind-meld program? Because the main tune seems to be eerily similar from year to year (and president to president). Google is evil, Amazon is evil, ... more >