Publishing's noisy neighbours | FutureBook

"... The rise of these new strong opinions will likely result in a realignment of the associations that exist to support authors en masse. In the UK Ross’ Alliance of Independent Authors was created at a time when the more established Society of Authors locked out authors without a publishing track-record. ALLi was briefly called the Society of Independent Authors; and there is also an Association of Independent Authors. To add to the confusion, in the US there is now the recently created Authors Alliance, a group whose mission is to facilitate “widespread access to works of authorship”, a statement that has led some to regard AA—even before its official launch tomorrow—as an anti-copyright group. Along with agent groups, such as the Association of Authors Agents, lobbying from these membership clubs will only intensify, and they will not always speak as one voice: authors, like their books, come with different perspectives ..."