Maybe it’s a byproduct of all that turkey eating, as this week has seen a veritable feast of ridiculous “advice” from all over for publishers. We’re all accustomed to every American adult believing they are an author-in-waiting, but now it appears many of them want to be publishers as well. First came author James Gleick. Even though he helped negotiate the Authors Guild’s settlement with Google, he begins by mischaracterizing its particulars, asserting that it will “allow the scanning and digitizing of something very much like All the World’s Books. So here is the long dreamed-of universal library, its contents […]
