Authors, agents and publishers were surprised to learn earlier this week that reading subscription service Scribd — a retailer account for publishers — had helped itself to creating 500 short text and audio write-throughs of a swathe of high-profile nonfiction in the name of “discovery.” Did Michelle Obama, Daniel Pink, Elizabeth Gilbert, Phil Knight, Seth Godin, John Carreyrou, Eric Ries, Brene Brown, Steven Hawking, Chip Heath, Joshua Foer, Sheryl Sandberg, Yuval Noah Harari and countless others need a tech startup to rewrite in their own new copyrighted words short versions of “the key insights, the key themes, the tone, the […]