Amazon's New Database Likely to Help Sales of Some Works, May Undermine Others

Amazon's New Database Likely to Help Sales of Some Works, May Undermine Others
That the Author's Guild is protesting against comes as no real surprise (certainly much less of a surprise than the Guild's last tiff with the online bookstore, in which they protested against the online sales of used books). The Guild contends that "these publishers do not have the right to participate in this program without their authors' permission." Of course, the publishers' permission may not be needed: Amazon is not providing access to the books, only short excerpts. More...