Posted on July 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The publishing experts we follow have plenty of business, legal, and marketing advice and news to offer.
Here are the ones that we thought were can't-miss for our authors:
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Should indie writers worry about piracy?: Robin Phillips says that many "pirated" copies of ebooks aren't even truly the books they purport to be — and that even if they were, the financial cost to an author is far less than one might imagine (Author Help).
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What authors need to know about moral rights: Victoria Strauss provides a primer on the legal concept of moral rights, which many US-based writers aren't familiar with — but should be (Writer Beware).
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Cloudflare launches a pay-per-crawl for AI scraping: Dan Holloway reports on a new tool by Cloudflare, a relatively large internet company, that will allow website publishers to control — and charge for — AI scraping (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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One author, many faces: ALLi author-members share the ways they separate the varying professional names they use, as well as why those who just use one name do so (Alliance of Independent Authors).
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Crafting stories, finding readers, and selling direct: Joanna Penn interviews Ines Johnson about how she took her passion for storytelling into a profitable business (The Creative Penn).
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