Host booktv ozzie spend too would get the different aspects of the publishing world and one of those is the Authors Guild says she is the executive director of the group. What is that, Mary Rasenberger . Organization started in 1912 that a was to represent coauthors interest copyrights, freespeech we have been doing the same thing for over 100 years we represent their interests than publisher is we just had up panel on contract initiatives where we are looking at the standard trade Publishing Agreement and asking questions if the terms are the same in the digital world. We have 9,000 members we provide services for our members Legal Services for authors and also agents and other members and we provide Web Site Services helping them to build their web site you cannot not have a of web site if you have a book today it is fairly low cost in respect lot of time that we are the only group in the u. S. The represents all authors and were trying to ensure that they can make a living today is
What is the Authors Guild . An organization that was formed to represent authors the end their interest copyright freespeech we have been doing the same thing over 100 years we just had a panel looking at the standard trade Publishing Agreement asking questions if the terms are there in the Digital World we have 9,000 members we provide services for authors and agents. We provide Web Site Services so if we help them to build a web site and we spend a lot of time on advocacy that we all have authors try to assure that they can make a living today so we take a survey of our members one year ago that as we expected from anecdotal evidence that the survey shows us over 30 percent from the mean annual income of 24,000. So pretty low wages that tends to be very highly educated in india gets to the point where it is unsustainable, have. were focusing on now was to ensure that those authors can continue. 9,000 members . We have quite a number of wellknown authors that are members of the Author
Takes place online or in person. I think our mission has stayed very much the same even though the way we might deliver those services has changed. But we do have a new Strategic Plan that will well be coming t with shortly, so youll see how some things have changed and how were trying to better reach the communitys needs. I just wanted to take just a quick second to thank everyone. Like i said, we could go on forever. I wish we had some more time to talk about some more things, but i want to thank becky clark from the library of congress. Visit the library of congress. I want to thank mary ellen from the Montgomery County Public Library system. Emily from the American Library association, youre not going to find a Better Organization fighting a better battle. Go to their web site, help out any way you can. And i also wanted to thank kira and, again, get a plug in for library jury room, a publication that i nerd out and my journal reviews everything, not just books, graphic novels, fil