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• The Dispossessed

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 716
  "I am not going to rehearse any arguments pro and anti the "Google settlement." You decided to deal with the devil, as it were, and have presented your arguments for doing so. I wish I could accept them. I cant. There are principles involved, above all the whole concept of copyright; and these you have seen fit to ...
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• Google Book settlement leads to Ursula Le Guin resignation from Authors Guild

  
  FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog — Authority: 133
  Ursula Le Guin, whose membership in the Authors Guild dates back to 1972, has resigned from the organization, citing her unhappiness with the role the Guild played in the Google Book settlement.“You decided to deal with the devil, as it were, and have presented your arguments for doing so. I wish I could accept ...
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• Separation of E-Book Rights: Publishers Worst Nightmare

  
  Publishing in the 21st Century — Authority: 112
  Publishers are fighting the last war, but theyd better turn their heads forward if they dont want to lose the next one. The notice served by Random House to authors and agents, vowing to protect its backlist from predatory e-book developers, focused so much attention on previously published books that just about ...
  1 week ago

• Separation of E-Book Rights: Publishers Worst Nightmare

  
  E-Reads — Authority: 574
  Publishers are fighting the last war, but theyd better turn their heads forward if they dont want to lose the next one. The notice served by Random House to authors and agents, vowing to protect its backlist from predatory e-book developers, focused so much attention on previously published books that just about ...
  1 week ago

• Authors Guild on RH’s Rights Grab, Q&A continued

  
  Pub Rants — Authority: 506
  STATUS: It’s obvious that I need to rule the world. I couldn’t BELIEVE that the judges dismissed FACE from the Sing-Off. Are they nuts? Not to disparage the other performers but FACE is doing something different with a cappella. Surely an audience might like to see more of what they can do. Now it’s just the ...
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• Top-Selling Author Gives E-Book Exclusivity To Amazon.com

  
  Tech-Ex — Authority: 504
  This will probably raise red flags across the publishing industry, but it is certainly a coup for Amazon.com and its Kindle e-book reader. Steven Covey is Amazon.coms 13th-highest top-selling author overall, and Amazon.com now has "electronic exclusivity" to two of his best-sellers. The e-book versions of Stephen ...
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• Authors Guild repudiates Random House ebook rights grab

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  The following is a statement issued today by the Authors Guild which completely rejects Random House’s opinion on ebook rights. This is important stuff so I reprint the statement in full: December 15, 2009. On Friday, Random House CEO Markus Dohle sent a two-page letter to many literary agents regarding e-books. ...
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• Authors Guild Fights Back on E-Book Rights

  
  Media Decoder — Authority: 714
  Authors Guild fights back against Random House over e-book rights to backlist titles.
  1 week ago

• Authors Guild on Random House (repost)

  
  Space Snark A blog by Rowena Cherry — Authority: 122
  I occasionally repost info that interests me, and that I think may interest some of my friends and colleagues. Heres the text of an email I just received, which granted blanket permission to repost, retweet, and forward. The advice about sitting on ebook rights (and not rushing to grant them to Amazon!) interests me, ...
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• Latest Kindle exclusive: Atlantic-chosen short stories—and the authors can’t even republish ‘em in other formats

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Christopher Buckley , the novelist, wrote a 15,000-word story about two young sailors. The Atlantic Magazine in the past would have couldn’t have run it because of the length; besides, the Atlantic no longer even publishes monthly fiction on paper. And yet the story was too short for a book. Now, however, thanks ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
  3 weeks ago

• My e-book Thanksgiving list

  
  TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — Authority: 655
  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! A number of other sites are doing Thanksgiving lists ( Ars Technica , Wired , another Wired , and Wired again on things not to be thankful for ), and I thought I would assay one of my own. Of course, we all know that we have a lot more to be thankful for than just ...
  4 weeks ago

• Lisa Dale Books

  
  Christopher Ross — Authority: 126
  Helping book authors make great websites has been a passion of ours ever since designing the author publishing tool for the Authors Guild of America.
  4 weeks ago

• Groups and Association for Writers

  
  PoeWar — Authority: 91
  This list is updated as of November 22, 2009. I have added more international listings and updated the addresses. There are hundreds of groups and associations out there. I know I have only scratched the surface, but this should get you started. United States Writing Groups and Associations Academy Of American ...
  4 weeks ago

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