Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers
Simon & Schuster has launched a self-publishing operation, Archway Publishing, contracting one of the most disreputable players in the business to run the show: Author Solutions. We’ll get to that...
View ArticlePenguin’s Solution for Authors: One Racket To Rule Them All
Regular readers of this blog will know all about Penguin’s purchase last July of the universally reviled Author Solutions – a company infamous for overcharging writers, doing a terrible job of...
View ArticlePenguin Random House Merger Helps Author Solutions Exploit Writers
Penguin and Random House officially merged on July 1 creating the largest trade publisher in the world. This merger has given fresh impetus to one of their subsidiaries to scam unsuspecting writers –...
View ArticleHow Jessica Mitford Exposed A $48m Scam From America’s Literary Establishment
Jessica Mitford took on the American funeral industry, the California Department of Corrections, and the Ku Klux Klan, but it was her 1970 exposé of The Famous Writers School which led to Time calling...
View ArticleBay Area Book Festival Defends Author Solutions Sponsorship
I discovered yesterday that Author Solutions was sponsoring the inaugural Bay Area Book Festival – something at odds with the breathless verbiage on the event’s site: A new kind of book fair… the...
View ArticleAuthor Solutions and Friends: The Inside Story
Author Solutions has forged partnerships with a long list of famous names in publishing – from Simon & Schuster and Hay House to Barnes & Noble and Reader’s Digest. Recent disclosures in...
View ArticleFYI: Penguin Random House Is Still In The Vanity Business
Penguin Random House announced the sale of Author Solutions on Tuesday, leading to headlines stating it has exited the self-publishing business and various commentators congratulating it for cleaning...
View ArticleThe One Where An Author Steals Text From My Book To Sell Pirated Software
In today’s episode we are going to out a two-bit huckster who tried to put one over on yours truly, take a quick detour through the verdant fields of copyright law (and the slightly plainer meadows of...
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