The Authors Guild: A Mouse Roaring

It is interesting to watch the Authors Guild take the next vital step in proving itself irrelevant.

“As part of its ongoing effort to raise writers’ income,” reports Publishers Weekly this first week of January, 2016, “the Authors Guild is sending an open letter to members of the Association of American Publishers. The Guild will begin mailing the letters this week, with the first going to the largest publishing houses; in subsequent weeks the Guild expects to hit the remaining relevant AAP members, said Mary Rasenberger, executive director of the Guild … . The letter recaps the highlights of the Guild’s Fair Contract Initiative, which the association began at last year’s BookExpo America, and which sets forth the Guild’s contention that if authors are to be adequately compensated for their work, the standard publishing contract needs to be reworked.”