The Author's Guild is a pathetically small and out dated organization. They have 8,000 members, yet there's approximately 170,000 books published in the US ever

The Author's Guild is a pathetically small and out dated organization. They have 8,000 members, yet there's approximately 170,000 books published in the US every year and most authors only manage a handful of books per year, which suggests they have an exceptionally small member group, this is if all their members are authors, which they're not a lot of their members are agents and attorneys. Compare this with the SFWA and as a niche market, SF/F/H, you would expect them to have significantly less members, yet they have 1500, which is a comparatively large number. The other thing that lends credence to the SFWA over the Author's Guild, is that I actually hear of the SFWA outside of stupid legal arguments. The last Author's Guild scheme was against the whole google book scanning thing, I believe Google paid them off and now no one has the legal right to sue google for it ever again.