{"id":224,"date":"2013-04-10T18:18:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/?p=224"},"modified":"2013-04-10T18:18:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T00:18:12","slug":"authors-guild-president-scott-turow-is-an-idiot-luddite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/?p=224","title":{"rendered":"Author&#8217;s Guild President Scott Turow Is An Idiot, Luddite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Scott Turow is a luddite (and an idiot)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130408\/01345422620\/authors-guilds-scott-turow-supreme-court-google-ebooks-libraries-amazon-are-all-destroying-authors.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">A fantastic article from TechDirt.com about Scott Turow, and how he is probably the most dangerous &#8216;friend&#8217; an author can have<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve written more than a few times about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/blog\/?tag=scott+turow\">Scott Turow<\/a>, a brilliant author, but an absolute disaster as the Luddite-driven head of the Authors&#8217; Guild. During his tenure, he&#8217;s done a disservice to authors around the globe by basically attacking everything new and modern &#8212; despite any opportunities it might provide &#8212; and talked up the importance of going back to physical books and bookstores. He&#8217;s an often uninformed champion of a past that never really existed and which has no place in modern society. He once claimed that Shakespeare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20110215\/11165113112\/would-shakespeare-have-survived-todays-copyright-laws.shtml\">wouldn&#8217;t<\/a> have been successful under today&#8217;s copyright law because of piracy, ignoring the fact that copyright law didn&#8217;t even exist in the age of Shakespeare. His <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20120310\/19034718067\/authors-guild-boss-e-book-price-fixing-allegations-but-brick-and-mortar.shtml\">anti-ebook rants<\/a> are just kind of wacky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Scott Turow is a luddite (and an idiot)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130408\/01345422620\/authors-guilds-scott-turow-supreme-court-google-ebooks-libraries-amazon-are-all-destroying-authors.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fantastic article from TechDirt.com about Scott Turow, and how he is probably the most dangerous &#8216;friend&#8217; an author can have: &#8220;We&#8217;ve written more than a few times about Scott Turow, a brilliant author, but an absolute disaster as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/?p=224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[45,44,46,43,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angrygames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}