Our round-up of articles of interest and key news affecting authors. In this week’s edition: protecting net neutrality, inside the Hyman archive, and more... How Google Is Killing the Independent Movie Industry Newsweek Movie producer Cassian Elwes explains how internet piracy is decimating the entertainment industry. “Piracy has run rampant on the internet, and creatives …
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Recent Bills Affecting the Entertainment and Arts Industries
By Cheryl L. Davis 2017 was eventful on a number of fronts, not least of all in terms of legislation affecting the entertainment and arts industries. On Oct. 4, 2017, a bipartisan bill was introduced: the Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act of 2017 (CASE). CASE would establish a “small” copyright claims tribunal in the …
Long-time Member and Renowned Author Ursula K. Le Guin Dies at 88
It is with great sadness that the Authors Guild mourns the passing of long-time member and supporter Ursula K. Le Guin, who died today at her home in Portland, Oregon. Le Guin was best known for her feminist-minded science fiction and fantasy, but was prolific across other genres. She authored more than 20 novels, a …
Guild Joins Letter Cautioning USTR Against Relaxing NAFTA’S IP Protections
The Authors Guild joined thirty-five other creative industry organizations in a letter to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, urging the USTR to maintain pro-IP-protections “that promote American creators and innovators and U.S. economic strength, in the modernization of NAFTA.” The letter was written in response to calls from anti-IP interests for greater …
2017 NBCC Award Finalists Announced
The National Book Critics Circle announced their finalists earlier today. Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing is nominated in the category of Fiction. Frances FitzGerald’s The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America is nominated in the category of Nonfiction. Caroline Fraser’s Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder and William Taubman’s Gorbachev: His Life …
Weekly Round-Up: January 19, 2018
Our round-up of articles of interest and key news affecting authors. In this week’s edition: the push to reinstate net neutrality, how kickstarter is changing publishing, 2018 film adaptations, and more... The Senate’s Push to Overrule the FCC on Net Neutrality Now Has 50 Votes, Democrats Say The Washington Post The Senate has 50 of …
An Update on Open Library
Thank you to the many members, other authors and organizations, publishers and agents who responded to our emails about Open Library. We received tremendous feedback, which has been very helpful. Your feedback confirmed that a massive number of in-copyright books, some quite recent, are available in Open Library, as well as through the Internet Archive …
Q and A with an Editor: Yuka Igarashi
Ownership of the storied publisher Soft Skull has changed hands several times since it was founded in the early 1990s, but it has consistently published forward-thinking literature with an edge. Some of their titles include Eileen Myles’s Cool for You, Lydia Millet’s Pulitzer Prize finalist Love in Infant Monkeys, Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown, and Lynne Tillman’s …
The Search for America’s Best-Loved Novel
We are pleased to support The Great American Read, a nationwide campaign created by PBS and Nutopia, which aims to explore the power of books and their ability to move and shape us as individuals and as a society. Part of the campaign is a new eight-part television series that will travel across America over …
Jesmyn Ward Wins NAACP Image Award
Jesmyn Ward's Sing, Unburied, Sing has won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Fiction.
Stephen King to Receive PEN Literary Service Award
Stephen King will receive the PEN America Literary Service Award at the 2018 PEN America Literary Gala. The ceremony will be held on May 22.
Weekly Round-Up: January 12, 2018
Our round-up of articles of interest and key news affecting authors. In this week’s edition: Fire and Fury and a pledge to revise libel laws, a bill to repeal net neutrality gains steam, and more... Inside the Battle for Arthur Miller’s Archive The New York Times Yale University and the Harry Ransom Center are in …
Weekly Round-Up: January 5, 2018
Our round-up of articles of interest and key news affecting authors. In this week’s edition: 2018 book publishing predictions, Spotify hit with a 1.6 billion lawsuit and more... Indie Bookstores Tell Us About Their Most Stolen Books Electric Literature From Didion to Bukowski, Electric Literature talks to indie bookstores across the country to find out …
Authors Guild Denounces Trump Effort to Quash New Book
NEW YORK, NY, January 4, 2018—The Authors Guild is dismayed by the unprecedented attempt by President Trump to block publication of a book. A private attorney representing Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to the author Michael Wolff and the publisher Henry Holt and Company, demanding that they halt the upcoming Fire and Fury: Inside the …
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