The Authors Guild has posted a template takedown notice that authors can send to the Internet Archive to have their books removed from the organization’s websites. Note, however, that the simplest and fastest route to have your books taken down is to message the IA’s Jason Scott, who is @textfiles on Twitter. (He has also appealed to the online mob to stop attacking authors who are concerned about protecting their intellectual property and livelihood: “One particular theme in the attacks is ridiculing the work of the authors, the books, and I wanted to beg people to stop doing that…. These […]