#authors_guild — Public Fediverse posts
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The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
#ycombinator #Google #books #out_of_print_books #class_action #Google_Books #settlement #Authors_Guild #class_action_settlement #Google_Books_Search #Google_Books_database #Google_Books_litigation #Google_Book_Search -
The Tragedy of Google Books (2017)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-tragedy-of-google-books/523320/
#ycombinator #Google #books #out_of_print_books #class_action #Google_Books #settlement #Authors_Guild #class_action_settlement #Google_Books_Search #Google_Books_database #Google_Books_litigation #Google_Book_Search -
@alan I appreciate your thinking. My third book was self-published; I wasn't satisfied with the one deal I was offered. However, it was produced as an homage to my dead mentor and co-author, not as an attempt to sell widely.
Many successful #authors_guild colleagues self-publish. I don't trust well enough that if I think X is a good idea, but agents and traditional publishers don't see it as viable, I'm right and they're wrong. It happens . . . people do come upon zebra hoofprints/droppings. . . -
@alan I appreciate your thinking. My third book was self-published; I wasn't satisfied with the one deal I was offered. However, it was produced as an homage to my dead mentor and co-author, not as an attempt to sell widely.
Many successful #authors_guild colleagues self-publish. I don't trust well enough that if I think X is a good idea, but agents and traditional publishers don't see it as viable, I'm right and they're wrong. It happens . . . people do come upon zebra hoofprints/droppings. . .