High Desert Branch Joins
Town’s End Fair in Apple Valley
The High Desert Branch of the California Writers Club (HDCWC) has arranged space for member authors to sell their books at Apple Valley’s Town’s End fair across from the post office, Wednesday evenings from 5-8 p.m. and on Sundays 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. through July 21, in a lively atmosphere of foot traffic, food trucks, music, and a variety of vendors. Free parking. Free admission.
HDCWC has sponsored the activity to bring down the costs for members, who must have a sales permit with them at the time of participation.
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Authors Guild Protests
Loss of Copyright Protection
We report this March 2020 item from the Authors Guild as an extremely important issue that commands the attention of all writers.
“The Authors Guild is appalled by the Internet Archive’s (IA) announcement that it is now making millions of in-copyright books freely available online without restriction on its Open Library site under the guise of a National Emergency Library. IA has no rights whatsoever to these books, much less to give them away indiscriminately without consent of the publisher or author. We are shocked that the Internet Archive would use the Covid-19 epidemic as an excuse to push copyright law further out to the edges, and in doing so, harm authors, many of whom are already struggling.
“With mean writing incomes of only $20,300 a year (https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/authors-guild-survey-shows-drastic-42-percent-decline-in-authors-earnings-in-last-decade/) prior to the crisis, authors, like others, are now struggling all the more—from cancelled book tours and loss of freelance work, income supplementing jobs, and speaking engagements. And now they are supposed to swallow this new pill, which robs them of their rights to introduce their books to digital formats as many hundreds of midlist authors do when their books go out of print, and which all but guarantees that author incomes and publisher revenues will decline even further.
“READ MORE at https://www.authorsguild.org/industry-advocacy/internet-archives-uncontrolled-digital-lending/).”