: Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla’s allegations remind us of the author versus publisher battle no one wants #IndiaNEWS “Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups.

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Writer Vinod Kumar Shukla’s allegations remind us of the author versus publisher battle no one wants #IndiaNEWS
“Authors are not a special case, deserving of more sympathy than many other groups. We are a particular case of a general degradation of the quality of life, and we are not going to stop pointing it out, because we speak for many other groups as well.�Ever since the writer of the best-selling Dark Materials books became the president of the Society of Authors nine years ago, Philip Pullman has been fighting for the right of the authors to be paid “properly�. He would go on to lead campaigns to force publishers – and even the government – to pay authors for electronic versions of their work that were used by public lending libraries, and ask publishers to increase payments to authors. Pullman and other writers quoted reports from the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) that revealed how median earnings for professionals plummeted 42 per cent between 2005 and 2018.Writers claiming they have not been paid their dues by their publishers is clearly not a new phenomenon, therefore. There is no equivalent of the ALCS in India that can reveal such data. Nor is there any public disclosure of financial information by publishers. Individual author-publisher contracts have been rare in the...Read more

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