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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.
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 in the Rye” that Salinger managed to quash in the U.S. before his death. Now [...]
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 extra. You probably remember that when the Kindle 2 came out in February, the Authors [...]
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.