William Morris Endeavor reiterated their advice to clients to opt out of the Google Book Settlement in a second letter sent last week after the Authors Guild responded aggressively to the agency’s correspondence and asserted it contained “several errors.” In the new letter from WME, said to be posted in its entirety, the agency underscored that “we believe that our clients benefit from their stature, the negotiating power of the Agency, as well as long established precedent in our book contracts that other authors may not share.” In other words, they want to make their own deals, and not be […]
