A lawsuit
against Author Solutions has been discontinued after plaintiffs reached a settlement with the company, it has been reported.
Would some people still be discussing the merit of the memo's arguments or would there be a universal call for swift
action against its author?
It's inevitable that I will
compete against another author for placement, for attention, for the limited time and limited money that a reader has to spend.
I've
argued against authors and publishers investing in embedded audio / video because I think most readers are not interested.
Authors shouldn't be asked to pay the expense of creating an index, but some book contracts casually charge a couple thousand
dollars against author royalties, or several dollars per book page.
Some authors are flattered by the fact that fans can't let the story go, or that they want to reimagine the plot and outcomes; others get up in arms and have even taken legal action
against authors who even post fan fic to their own free blogs.
Former president of Penn State files lawsuit
against author of report on sex abuse scandal, Reuters
If statements made by statutory compulsion under the highway Traffic Act can not be used
against the author in a subsequent criminal prosecution, why should statements made by statutory compulsion under the Environmental Protection Act be admissible in a subsequent environmental prosecution?
Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer BewareIn April, the law firm of Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart filed a class action
lawsuit against Author Solutions Inc. and its parent, Penguin Group, on behalf of three plaintiffs, alleging breach of c... -LSB-...]
A brief notice filed September 14 showed the
case against Author Solutions in Indiana was voluntarily dismissed, with prejudice, with the parties agreeing to end litigation and to pay their own costs and attorney fees.
This debate (amazon vs the big 5) is getting quite interesting: When Authors
Turn Against Authors, Or: Storytelling Folks Should Stick Together Thought Catalog Lit Blog — Poems, flash fiction, articles «If you're going through hell, keep going.»
Europeans and North Americans find it hard to appreciate the depth of outrage and anguish The Satanic Verses has caused in the Muslim world, and I am afraid that the issue of the death
threat against the author has served merely to deepen confusion in the West.
In the second and final debate between the Democrat and the Republican earlier this week, it seemed as though Hochul was
running against the author of the GOP Medicare plan, House Republican Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, instead of Corwin.
Many thanks for including my little
rant against authors who tweet - greet followers with automatic «Buy My Book At» messages
But as Lendink has been reduced to vapor for the time being, its Facebook Page remains — along with a growing
backlash against the authors behind its shutdown.
And no, i'm not defending the threats to life and family, or any of the retaliatory activity going
on against the authors unable to read their own contracts.
When all is said and done a new registrant or low producer competing
against this author for a client can actually haul out incorrect calculations and use them against him more effectively than his claim against them.
What is is about Islam, for example, that makes it acceptable to issue a death
warrant against an author — Rusdie — simply because he wrote a book?
Hoping to find an interesting debate on this page, I was disappointed that the arguments against Labour seem to be the same old «wasn't Blair / Brown shit», «Iraq, Iraq, Iraq», and a series of personal
slurs against the author.
After a quick investigation, officials at a medical school in New York State say they have found «no evidence» that a faculty member violated the school's
prohibition against authoring a paper ghostwritten by others.
The Single and 30 - Something blog challenges the notion that everyone has to be hitched by 30 and fights
back against the author's constant encouragement to settle down.
Scarlett Johansson has triumphed in her defamation
trial against an author who penned a book featuring a character based on the actress.The Captain...
Many authors believe that you don't need a website, and the argument for and
against author websites rages whenever new authors get together.
Comparison to A.S. Byatt (admittedly, this is just as likely to work
against the author if I pick the book up and find only so - so writing)
A three - judge panel on the Second Circuit ruled decisively for the software
giant against the Authors Guild, a professional group of published writers which had alleged Google's scanning of library books and displaying of free «snippets» online violated its members's copyright.
Then you must evaluate it intelligently in several contexts: the writing, the story, the character development, the verisimilitude, how it
compares against the author's other works if relevant, how it compares to other works in the genre if relevant (plus / minus other features if the book is nonfiction).