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Primary documents, professional bodies, surveys and reporting used across our current briefings.

01Writer Beware (SFWA) — schemes and documentationwriterbeware.blog↗02AALA Canon of Ethics — prohibition of reading feesaalitagents.org↗03Authors Guild — Key Takeaways from the 2023 Author Income Surveyauthorsguild.org↗04IBPA Hybrid Publisher Criteria — honest distribution claimsibpa-online.org↗05Authors Guild — Rights Reversion: Negotiating and Exercising Out-of-Print Clausesauthorsguild.org↗06Alliance of Independent Authors — Self-Publishing Advice Centerselfpublishingadvice.org↗07Publishers Weekly — DOJ v. PRH: All Our Coveragepublishersweekly.com↗08Jane Friedman — Why book sales figures are so hard to interpret (verification example)janefriedman.com↗09Authors Guild — Model Trade Book Contractauthorsguild.org↗10Publishers Weekly — DOJ v. PRH: Markus Dohle’s Silicon Valley of Mediapublishersweekly.com↗11Publishers Weekly — Returns 101: What New Authors Need to Knowpublishersweekly.com↗12Publishers Weekly — IBPA Revises Hybrid Publisher Criteriapublishersweekly.com↗13Publishers Weekly — Self-Publishing’s Output and Influence Continue to Grow (Bowker data)publishersweekly.com↗14Gallimard — Du côté de chez Swann de Marcel Proust (official history)gallimard.fr↗15Proust Ink — Chronologyproust-ink.com↗16Sotheby’s — Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (auction record and publication history)sothebys.com↗17Wikipédia — À la recherche du temps perdu (publication history)fr.wikipedia.org↗18Wikipedia (IT) — Ossi di seppia: prima edizione e sottoscrizioneit.wikipedia.org↗19Libreria Antiquaria Pontremoli — Ossi di seppia, scheda bibliograficalibreriapontremoli.it↗20Succedeoggi — “Ossi di seppia” da Gobetti a Einaudisuccedeoggi.it↗21Il Libraio — La coscienza di Zeno, romanzo cardine del ’900 (storia editoriale)illibraio.it↗22Biblioteca Marucelliana — La coscienza di Zeno: a 100 anni dalla prima edizionemarucelliana.cultura.gov.it↗23Letras Libres — Cien años de Fervor de Buenos Airesletraslibres.com↗24Infobae — El manuscrito de Fervor de Buenos Airesinfobae.com↗25The Bookseller — Dohle defends PRH bidding policy at trialthebookseller.com↗26NPR — Judge blocks Penguin Random House–Simon & Schuster mergernpr.org↗27Elle Griffin — No One Buys Books (The Elysian)elysian.press↗28Slate — A Post About Book Sales Went Viral. Here’s What It Gets Wrong.slate.com↗29Lincoln Michel — No, Most Books Don’t Sell Only a Dozen Copiescountercraft.substack.com↗30SFWA — The Importance of Reversion Clauses in Book Contractssfwa.org↗31Authors Guild — An Author’s Guide to Agency Agreementsauthorsguild.org↗32The New York Times — Millions of Followers? For Book Sales, “It’s Unreliable.”nytimes.com↗33Jane Friedman — Yes, Social Media Can Sell Books. But Not If Publishers Sit on Their Handsjanefriedman.com↗34WritersServices — summary of the NYT reportingwritersservices.com↗35Writer Beware — The AALA Revises Its Canon of Ethicswriterbeware.blog↗36Jane Friedman — AALA revises Canon of Ethics to allow for paid editorial servicesjanefriedman.com↗37Publishers Weekly — Author Incomes Post Small Gainspublishersweekly.com↗38Whitman Archive — Leaves of Grass, 1855 editionwhitmanarchive.org↗39Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale) — 1855 Leaves of Grassbeinecke.library.yale.edu↗40Jane Austen Society of North America — Sense and Sensibilityjasna.org↗41Jane Austen’s House — First edition: Sense and Sensibilityjaneaustens.house↗42V&A — Peter Rabbit: the tale of “The Tale”vam.ac.uk↗43Mental Floss — Why Beatrix Potter Self-Published Peter Rabbitmentalfloss.com↗44The Bookseller — Median earnings for authors now just £7,000 (ALCS)thebookseller.com↗45ALCS — UK Authors’ Earnings and Contracts 2022 (full report)create.ac.uk↗46Publishers Weekly — With Print Book Sales Stabilized, Return Rate Lowerspublishersweekly.com↗47RISE Bookselling — Industry Insights: Returnsrisebookselling.eu↗48Google Search Central — Spam policies (scaled content abuse)developers.google.com↗49Google — New updates to address spam and low-quality results (March 2024)blog.google↗