Leading booksellers and authors’ groups join together to file pro-Apple petition with Supreme Court
New developments in the court case that never ends: As reported in this Shelf Awareness story, the American Booksellers Association (ABA), Authors United (AU), Barnes & Noble and the Authors Guild (AG) joined… Read more »
ABA, Authors Guild, Association of Authors’ Representatives, and Authors United team up to demand Amazon antitrust inquiry
A month after the European Union announced an antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ebook contracts, four powerful groups representing authors and bookstores are uniting to demand that the U.S. government launch a… Read more »
Two for Tuesday: Are there too many books?
Topics discussed: warmth, beach vacations, gently crashing waves, rust, Rust, Norwegian domestic terrorism, American domestic terrorism, the long tail, The Long Tail, Stewart O’Nan, Alex’s party skills, cynicism, poker, Authors… Read more »
Canadian authors get caught in Amazon-Hachette dispute
As the Amazon-Hachette dispute rolls on, we’ve been covering the plight of American authors, and how through initiatives like Authors United writers are speaking up against Amazon and its bad… Read more »
Amazon is sparing at least one Hachette author: Paul Ryan. Why?
When you read David Streitfeld’s “Literary Lions” piece in The New York Times early this week, you may have noticed certain little aside before Salon and the Huffington Post jumped on… Read more »
Andrew Wylie is backing Authors United. Here’s why that matters
Authors United already boasts over 1,000 authors, but the group isn’t resting on its laurels and it isn’t done growing. Two weeks after writing a powerful open letter to Amazon’s… Read more »
What Amazon can’t do: on Authors United, Hachette, and self-publishing
I: A Tale of Two Letters Over the past several months, Authors United, a group of over 1,000 writers led by Douglas Preston has emerged as a leading critic of… Read more »
Janet Fitch goes after “Mr. Bezos”
Forget the Neal Pollacks, the Hugh Howeys. Give me your Fitches, your Prestons, your huddled authors yearning to write free. Janet Fitch, author of the blockbusters White Oleander and Paint it Black, wants Jeff Bezos to know he… Read more »
Amazon wants Hachette to stop “using its authors as human shields”
Once upon a time, you could expect one sentence in nearly every article published about Amazon: “An Amazon spokesman declined to comment.” As of this writing, a Google search for… Read more »
Authors United push back against Amazon, develop “long-term strategy”
A group of authors who recently signed a letter calling on “Amazon to resolve its dispute with Hachette without hurting authors and without blocking or otherwise delaying the sale of… Read more »