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Self-help rights guide for indie publishers
If you’ve ever signed a contract for a book, as an author, a publisher, or a translator, do you know why it stipulated the terms that it did? [...] Petra Hardt, Foreign Rights Director at Suhrkamp Verlag in Berlin, has … Continue reading
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Tagged contracts, guides, legal, publishing, rights
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Author says publishers underreporting ebook sales by a factor of ten
Kristine Kathryn Rusch says the ebook sales figures from her publisher are off by 90% or more — and that it’s a problem authors need to fix now. Continue reading
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Tagged accounting, audits, ebooks sales, errors, legacy systems, money, payments, publishers, reporting, rights, royalties, sales figures
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Sign this petition if you think the Authors Guild should leave the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature alone
The National Federation of the Blind has joined up with dozens of other organizations to form the Reading Rights Coalition, which is fighting for the right to use the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech function on any text without having to pay … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, audiobooks, authors guild, blind, blindness, copyright, Kindle 2, NFB, protests, reading rights, rights, t2s, text to speech, tts
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Amazon caves to Authors Guild, allows publishers to disable "Read It Now"
Amazon gives in to the Authors Guild, and will let publishers and authors disable the read-it-now function on books. Continue reading
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Tagged audiobooks, authors guild, copyright, ebooks, Kindle 2, publishers, read it now, rights, text to speech, tts
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Why it’s sometimes good for writers to build on each other’s work
Yesterday I spent most of the afternoon writing out my idea for how fanfic and other writers could theoretically use digital technology to bypass copyright roadblocks. What inspired me was the recent story about an unauthorized sequel to “The Catcher … Continue reading →