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- Philip Pullman
The Society of Authors is a non-profit making organisation, founded in 1884,
“to protect the rights and further the interests of authors”
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Society's view on authors paying for publication?
This covers a wide range of activities, from self-publishing a work of specialist non-fiction to out-and-out vanity publishing.
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