The Author's Guild is NOT this peaceful grandma's knitting association you're portraying it as. It has a long history of frivolous lawsuits, censorship, and cop

The Author's Guild is NOT this peaceful grandma's knitting association you're portraying it as. It has a long history of frivolous lawsuits, censorship, and copyright maximalism only matched by groups like the MPAA. It also has a history of lip service against publishers, while in reality acting entirely in their interests. That is the reason why they joined in, not any heartful concern for the little guy. They have consistently fought against higher royalty digital publishing. (https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/30/authors-guilded-united-representing-not-authors/ https://www.techdirt.com/2015/07/30/authors-guilded-united-r... https://www.techdirt.com/company/authors-guild/ https://www.techdirt.com/company/authors-guild/)