This Writing Life

I’ve spent most of this morning reading through some documentation sent to me by John Jarrold, my agent, concerning the Google Book Settlement. Google is in the process of digitising books. It began this, and has continued to do so, largely without the permission of rights holders. The issues are complex. Even the summary I [...]

BubbleCow reports on the settlement agreed by Google to reimburse the authors whose works Google has been scanning, fiendishly, in the dead of night. Over the past years Google has been systematically scanning library books and making the digital copies freely available on the internet. The potential implications to writers, the impact on their sales [...]