The Authors Guild
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Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
You’ve got questions and we’ve got answers! Up this week: do authors need an LLC or S-Corp? We’re digging into it here:
Do Authors Need an LLC or S-Corporation?
By Erin Lowry It would be wonderful if authors only needed to focus on writing and never had to worry about the practicalities of running a business. Unfortunately, that’s not the way it works. Your...
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For our author friends, a helpful resource on what to do if your book is challenged from @authorsguild.org authorsguild.org/resource/boo...
Your Book Was Just Challenged. Start Here.
When your book is challenged or removed, it can feel sudden, personal, and disorienting. Many authors don’t know what to do next—or whether to speak publicly at all. Book bans do not just affect indi...
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TikTok has become so integral to book sales that roughly one in 13 books can now be tied to a viral video… but at what cost?
Common Readers | The Point Magazine
I’ve passed enough “As Seen on TikTok” tables at otherwise cozily untrendy bookstores that I can no longer picture a solvent mass publishing industry without this app.
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What’s your favorite thing about the library? Our members are sharing their memories, thoughts and experiences this summer to celebrate the ALA’s 150th anniversary and we’d love to hear from you 💖📚
We’re hosting Narrative Muse, a UNESCO-recognized audience intelligence platform, to learn how AI reads metadata… and how you can use that knowledge to sell more books. We hope you’ll join us! As always the event is free but you must register to attend:
How to Improve Metadata to Sell More Books
Are your book descriptions and metadata making your book easily discoverable in the modern age? Join us for an informative session with Narrative Muse, a UNESCO-recognized audience intelligence platfo...
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Want to write like Lauren Groff? You’re going to need a legal pad, a bankers box and a very open mind…
“You Just Do Language.” Lauren Groff on Craft, Reading, and Her New Collection
For fiction authors of a certain stripe, a 2023 New York Times profile of the author Lauren Groff landed like an apple on the head. For others, it spilled like piping hot coffee across the laptop. …
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🚨🚨🚨A US District Court judge just granted final approval of the landmark $1.5 billion Anthropic copyright settlement. Here’s what this means for authors:
Court Grants Final Approval of $1.5 Billion Anthropic Copyright Settlement
On July 20, 2026, Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California granted final approval of the landmark $1.5 billion class action settlement in Bartz ...
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This was one of the issues the Guild had discussed with Amazon, and we are pleased to see that Amazon is allowing authors greater choice in how they price their work.
Authors Guild Statement on Amazon KDP Raising Price Ceiling for 70 Percent Rate
The Authors Guild welcomes Amazon’s decision to extend Kindle Direct Publishing’s 70 percent ebook royalty rate to titles priced up to $12.99, up from the longstanding $9.99 ceiling. The change is eff...
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Narrating your own audiobook could mean significant money—or a significant headache. We’re hosting a free webinar to help you figure it out on WEDNESDAY JULY 22. Register here:
Narrating Your Own Audiobook
As audiobooks continue to grow in popularity, more authors are getting into narration. Learn about what goes on behind the scenes in this discussion with author and educator Torrey Maldonado, executiv...
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Signed up for this webinar from @authorsguild.org Thought some of my fellow authors here might be intersted. Narrating your own audiobook. mailchi.mp/authorsguild...
[Webinar] Narrating Your Own Audiobook
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"Libraries are my personal superhero!" — Min Jin Lee from the stage at this year’s ALA Annual Conference
ALA Annual Brings the Party to Chicago
The American Library Association worked and played hard for its sesquicentennial conference, held June 26–29, which drew some 14,500 attendees and such speakers as Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson and MS...
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We’re gearing up at the Authors Guild to celebrate the ALA’s 150th anniversary, and it got us thinking about why libraries endure, and what we gain from having access to them. We’ll be sharing lots of stories, but we wanted to start out with a universal truth: “Every writer has a library story”
This essential 50 book list, recommended by our authors, is not complete, and it isn’t meant to be. America is too large, too contradictory, too alive to be captured in any single inventory. Consider it a living document, like the country itself, still being written.
Essential Reading for America 250 - The Authors Guild
America has always been a nation of writers: not just of laws and declarations, but of testimonies, confessions, novels, poems, dispatches, and dreams written in defiance of every force that tried to ...
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Register here for our ghostwriting event on Thursday June 25 at 2 PM ET!
Breaking Into Ghostwriting: Finding Your Lane, Your Clients, and Your Boundaries - The Authors Guild
Ghostwriting has become a viable path for professional writers, but it remains frustratingly opaque. Too often, authors and freelancers know ghostwriting exists without knowing how to break in or what...
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Important work by the Author's Guild to establish rules of the road for AI. Impressed by the bipartisan nature of the work, particularly Senator Blackburn's framework that unauthorized AI training on copyrighted works does not qualify as fair use. authorsguild.org/news/authors... @authorsguild.org
Authors Go to Washington: The Authors Guild Takes the AI Copyright Fight to Capitol Hill - The Authors Guild
On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went to Washington, D.C., to remind members of Congress of the importance of free speech and make the case that artificial intelligence mu...
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Authors Guild authors and staff recently spent two days on Capitol Hill with 12 congressional meetings in both chambers, with both parties to make the case that AI companies cannot keep training on writers' work without consent, disclosure, or compensation.
Authors Go to Washington: The Authors Guild Takes the AI Copyright Fight to Capitol Hill - The Authors Guild
On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went to Washington, D.C., to remind members of Congress of the importance of free speech and make the case that artificial intelligence mu...
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We’ve seen some discussion around a recent Codex survey we commissioned asking readers where they obtain the books they read. The findings are interesting, and we want to set the record straight. Click here to read the survey findings: authorsguild.org/news/new-aut...
New Authors Guild Study: Only 25 Percent of Readers Paid for a New Copy of a Print Book or Ebook Read in the Previous Month - The Authors Guild
This article was updated on June 10, 2026. Books are available in more formats and channels than ever today—a boon to reading everywhere. Readers can read books in print, large print, ebook, audiobook...
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“He said that discipline is giving yourself to something instead of expecting to get something from it. And it just hit me so hard, because I’ve always thought, ‘I don’t have enough discipline to do this work,” or “I need more discipline.’ As if equating it with willpower, like it’s this muscle.”
Writer Mason Currey on why not knowing what you’re doing is a good sign – The Creative Independent
Writer Mason Currey discusses the solace of lineage, the true meaning of discipline, and the importance of staying true to the work.
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As always, the event is free but you must register to attend
FBI Advice for Fighting Author Scams - The Authors Guild
As a wave of scams targeting authors continues and evolves over time, authors need to know how to avoid them and what to do after communicating with a scammer. FBI Agent John Gill joins us to explain ...
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How does one begin and succeed at #publishing literary #translation? @authorsguild.org hosted a roundtable discussion with esteemed #editors and #publishers from Archipelago, HarperVia, Open Letter Books, and Tilted Axis Press. Watch the roundtable on YouTube here:
Path to Publication: Literary Translation
How does one begin and succeed at publishing literary translation? Join us for a roundtable discussion with esteemed editors and publishers from Archipelago, HarperVia, Open Letter Books, and Tilted…
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Learn what @americanpublish.bsky.social President and CEO Maria Pallante and @authorsguild.org CEO Mary Rasenberger have to say about the prolific audiobook #piracy problem on YouTube and why the platform needs to step up to fix it! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/b...
YouTube Is Crawling with Pirated Audiobooks Made Using A.I.
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A “professional book reader who evaluates literature specifically for screen adaptation” details exactly what he’s looking for in a manuscript
The Man Who Reads Books For a Living (One Every Two Days)
When Clarke Speicher (spike-er) asked how I liked the screen adaptation of Train Dreams, Denis Johnson’s novella following the solitary logger Robert Granier in the early 20th-century American West…
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The Copyright Office wants to raise registration fees and eliminate the cheapest option for solo authors. More than 500 of our members said this would hurt them. So we filed comments. Here's what's at stake—especially if you're watching the AI cases.
Authors Guild and Other Groups File Comments Opposing Copyright Office Fee Increases - The Authors Guild
On May 4, the Authors Guild, joined by the Dramatists Guild; Garden Communicators International; Novelists, Inc.; Romance Writers of America; and Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association, filed c...
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