A lot of authors get by on the bits of money they get from various users of their work, and the Internet doesn't change all of that. |
Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may bring it back, or it may come back when the author publishes a new book with a major publisher. |
I don't think it's particularly close under copyright law. You're not allowed to copy works for commercial purposes without a license, and that's precisely what they're doing. |
It certainly is a threat. |
It would have set an awful precedent.. |
It's great news. She reaches writers in a way that few others have been able to. Her recommendations were incredibly powerful, and she elevated authors whom the greater public had largely not known of. |
It's not for third parties to come in and digitize copyrighted works of 10s of thousands of authors and decide what they'll do with it. |
It's potentially a good thing, if it succeeds in getting the public's attention on books and reading. We would hope some of the benefit would spill over to lesser-known titles. |
The Amazon programs are the way copyright is supposed to work. |
This sounds like the way to go. If there is a new way to extract value from a book, then the author and the publisher should share in this income. |
We hope Amazon and others can make it work. |
We've never heard of anything like this. It really undermines the author's credibility and authority even if it's mostly inconsequential details. It's like putting a negative book review on the cover. |