Morning Coffee – 4 May 2020
Here are a few stories to read this Monday morning.
- The newly launched Publishers Weakly activist Twitter account was interviewed this week.
- A survey conducted at the Edinburgh book festival revealed that over half of authors hear voices in their head – the voices of their characters.
- Wired fell for the cover story on the IA’s National Emergency pirate site. The real story is that this is not about helping libraries; it’s about Brewster Kahle wanted to get sued in order to rewrite copyright law.
- Holly Brady reminds us that Ingram double dips when it comers to fees on the POD books it distributes.
- The state of Georgia lost its claim to the copyright on its law code this week when the US Supreme Court ruled that the law cannot be copyrighted, nor owned.
- Morgan Hazelwood has advice on how to get accepted as a guest at cons and book fairs.
- How would you like to use a bookstore as your Zoom background?
- A school boards plan to take five classic novels off the curriculum backfired.
Comments
Disgusting Dude May 4, 2020 um 8:32 am
The Publishrs Weakly interview is interesting.
How much is intentional parody and how much is serious revolution-talk is unclear.
Like most handwringing over tradpub matters (diversity/sexism/exploitative/etc), an asteriskis required: their victims are only victims becsuse they choose to live in that environment.
Plenty of folks survive and prosper outside the (shrinking) realm of tradpub.
Don’t like how the Manhattan Mafia runs the show? Don’t submit.
Gordon Horne May 6, 2020 um 1:43 pm
It’s interesting how rational the parodists sound compared to the people they’re parodying.
And I agree with DD, trad pub is no longer the only game in town. The cell door isn’t locked.
Morgan Hazelwood May 8, 2020 um 12:26 am
And… twitter suspended the @PublishrsWeakly account?