March 3, 2021
Citing ‘a sharp rise in complaints’ about companies that charge writers to produce their work, author-advocacy unions open a study.
In London’s Covent Garden, February 2. Image – iStockphoto: VV Shots
Solomon: ‘They Call Themselves Publishers’
The Society of Authors and Writers’ Guild of Great Britain the United Kingdom’s two authors’ unions have announced today (March 3) an investigation into “the financial and contractual impact on authors of publishers chat charge for publication.”
With the support of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS), the effort is intended, according to the groups’ media messaging, “to research the allegedly exploitative practices of some publishers that charge authors to publish their work.”