Authors Guild

Quite a fuss, because it is suggesting that that actually is the case.

And the Association of American Publishers and Authors Guild have taken this as evidence that there is actually now a direct correlation between increased library lens of e-books and audiobooks and decreased sales.

And they can even put a figure on it.

So the quotation from the report that is highlighted on the AAPs, that's the Association of American Publishers, press release about the issue is, consumer print sales declined by approximately 0.85 to 1% for every 1 percentage point in the increase.

The haggling is coming into plain view as a settlement administrator attempts to clear up who owns the rights to some of more than 482,000 books covered by the agreement in the class action case, which was approved in July by a judge in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California.

For many of those titles, ownership was undisputed, but on repeated occasions, authors and publishers have staked competing claims with the settlement administrator, which began recently informing them of those discrepancies, said Mary Rosenberger, chief executive of the Authors Guild, a professional association that says it has more than 18,000 members.

In an interview on Thursday, Rosenberger said the settlement process was ripe for such misunderstandings.

My big fear when this was all set up is that not all publishers keep great records of what books they've reverted rights to, Rassenberger said, and so you know they should be taking it off their catalog.

I don't see this as a grab by the publishers, she said, adding, I don't think they're specifically trying to screw any author over.

Authors could receive up to $3,000 for each one of their books that a judge ruled last year were illegally downloaded and stored by Anthropic in the development of its online chatbot, Claude.

But they must split the proceeds with publishers they granted book rights to and with co-authors, according to the Authors Guild, a trade group.

Rassenberger said the percentages were determined by a class action council that sought input from the Guild and publishers.

The haggling is coming into plain view as settlement administrate- as a settlement administrator attempts to clear up who owns the rights to some of the more than four hundred and eighty-two thousand books covered by the agreement in the class action case, which was approved in July by a judge in the US District Court in the Northern District of California.

For many of those titles, ownership is dis- undisputed, but on repeated occasions, authors and publishers have staked competing, competing claims with the settlement administrator, which began recently informing them of those discrepancies," said Mary Rasenberger, chief executive of the Authors Guild, a professional association that said it has more than eighteen thousand members.

In an interview on Thursday, Rasenberger said the settlement process was ripe for such misunderstandings.

"My big fear was that, was this was all set up ...

My big fear when this was all set up is not, that not all publishers keep great records of what books they're reverting rights to," Rasenberger said, "And so you know they should be taking it off their catalog." Rasenberger said she did not believe that publishers were acting in bad faith.

"I don't see this as a grab by the publishers," she said, adding, "I don't think they're specifically trying to screw any author over." Authors could receive up to three thousand dollars for each one of their books that a judge ruled last year were illegally downloaded and stored by Anthropic in the development of its online chatbot, Claude.

But they must split the proceeds, proceeds with publishers they granted a book rights to and with the co-authors, according to the Authors Guild, a trade group.

Rasenberger said the percentages were determined by a class action council that sought input from the guild and publishers.