Scott Turow (pictured on left), bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and numerous other mystery suspense novels, just became the president of The Authors Guild...Good pick, indeed, him being a lawyer and all. He seems well equipped to handle the ponderous problems facing authors in today's devastated, topsy-turvy publishing industry.
This excerpt is taken from Jason Boog's interview with Scott Turow on Media Bistro dot com:
Earlier this month, novelist Scott Turow became the new president of the Authors Guild--taking charge of the group during a tumultuous time for the publishing industry.
In today's installment of Media Beat, the bestselling novelist and attorney advised writers about the biggest problems facing the publishing industry. In previous segments, Turow talked about his new novel, Innocent, and offered advice for aspiring writers.
Here's an excerpt: "Right now frankly royalty rates for eBooks are too low. The Book royalty rates don't represent the same kind of division of profits that traditional hardcover royalties have represented. So that will be a meat and potatoes issue for us. But the larger problems for us is the pirating of books. It has killed large parts of the music industry. Musicians make up for the copies of their songs that get pirated by performing live. I don't think there will be as many people showing up to hear me read as to hear Beyonce sing. We need to make sure piracy is dealt with effectively."
Video of interview can be viewed here: http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid57408845001?bctid=84440520001
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