New Authors Group Hasn't Even Launched and It's Already the Victim of FUD - The Digital Reader

"Have you heard about the Authors Alliance? It’s a new forward-looking authors trade group which first broke cover last week in Publishers Weekly, and even though it won’t formally launch until later this week it is already the subject of strife ... PW  interviewed one of the founder of the Authors Alliance. I think that article is worth your time to read, but for the purposes of this post I am going to skip to the juicy cat fighting which has already broken out ... One  The Authors Guild board member took to The AG’s blog last Friday to post a 'warning' about this new group. It start out with this: 'If any of you earn a living as a writer, or hope to, I strongly urge you not to join the Authors Alliance. If you think authors should be the ones to decide what is done with their books, then I strongly urge you not to join.  However, if you are an academic, or scorn the idea of making a living from writing as a quest for 'fame and fortune,' the Authors Alliance may be the organization for you. If you think, in our digital age, that the biggest problem facing authors is how hard it is to give your work away for free, it’s for you. If you think you’ve got too much power over people who copy and distribute your work without your permission, by all means sign up. Even if you agree with one or two things advocated by the Authors Alliance, if you join you lend weight to its entire agenda.' And it goes downhill from there ..."