Accepting Amazon's DRM Makes It Impossible To Challenge Its Monopoly
Amazon was the target of some well-deserved criticism this past week for making the anti-customer move of suspending sales of books published by Hachette, reportedly as a hardball tactic in its...
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One-Percent Authors Want To End Destructive Conflict, Bring Order to the Galaxy
Just when I thought Amazon Derangement Syndrome couldn’t get any more acute, I woke up to this “letter to our readers” spearheaded by bestselling writer Douglas Preston and signed by 69 authors. One...
View ArticleAmazon Offers Authors 100% Of Ebook Sales To Get Them To Recognize Its Fight...
Last week, we had a post from author Barry Eisler, responding to a bunch of other authors who were attacking Amazon over its current contract dispute with Hachette. As Eisler noted, nearly all of their...
View ArticleWhy Does The Author's Guild Refuse To Even Acknowledge Views Of Authors Who...
Could the organization calling itself the “Authors Guild” (from its behavior, better understood as a lobbying arm for big publishing houses) get more fearful and brittle? In response to a typically...
View ArticleAmazon To Hachette And Authors: Here, Let Us Explain Basic Price Elasticity...
Apparently Amazon’s efforts earlier this month to make it abundantly clear that it’s fight with Hachette is about helping, not harming authors still didn’t quite make it through to authors who seem to...
View ArticleAmazon And Hachette Bury The Hatchet — It's Just Not Clear In Whom
For the past few months, we’ve been following the whole Amazon / Hachette contract dispute that was full of ridiculous misinformation and economic ignorance. It was interesting to see such a fight play...
View ArticleMajor Publishers Sue The Internet Archive's Digital Library Program In The...
For many years, we’ve said that if the public library were invented today, the book publishers would sue it out of existence. It appears that the big book publishers have decided to prove me right, as...
View ArticleInternet Archive Kicks Off Its Appeal Over Publishers Attempt To Kill The Site
Back in March we were greatly dismayed by the the ruling in Hachette v. the Internet Archive over the legality of “controlled digital lending” and the Archive’s “Open Library.” It seemed clear that...
View ArticleInternet Archive Files Opening Brief In Its Appeal Of Book Publishers’ Win
A few weeks ago, publishing giant Penguin Random House (and, yes, I’m still confused why they didn’t call it Random Penguin House after the merger) announced that it was filing a lawsuit (along with...
View ArticleWherein The Copia Institute Asks The Second Circuit To Stand Up For Fair Use,...
December was not just busy with Supreme Court briefs. The Copia Institute also joined many others, including copyright scholars and public interest organizations, in filing an amicus brief to support...
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