Returning an ebook after reading: is Amazon’s return policy damaging to authors and publishers?
Is it ok to read a book in its entirety and then return it to get your money back? This practise has been brought to light, in part thanks to… Read more »
Authors: “Pay us more.”According to the Authors Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), authors are not being paid enough. In their new report, which quizzed 5,523 British writers, the ALCS found that full-time writers’… Read more »
Meet the hedge fund manager who’s going to blow up the publishing industry by paying authors half the, uh, profits on their books
Jonathan De Montfort has a totally crazy idea: what if you paid authors… wait for it… to write books? Insane, right? Maybe, but De Montfort, an Englishman who spent several years… Read more »
In the UK, corporate publishing profits swell, as authors’ share dwindles, according to the Society of Authors
Authors have been footing the bill for growing profit margins at Big Five publishers like Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster, according to analysis presented by Nicola Solomon, chief executive of… Read more »
14,800 authors accidentally shortchanged in the UK
Whoops! A “manual input error” at the UK’s Public Lending Right (PLR), an organization that pays writers when their books are borrowed from libraries, accidentally underpaid 14,800 authors by a total… Read more »