18 January 2016
Philip Pullman has joined in the debate over author earnings, saying writers could soon be "an endangered species" if publishers fail to deliver on fairer terms.
Equating the publisher-author relationship to that of "the streamroller to the ant", he told the Guardian that authors were operating in a "savage and hostile" landscape in spite of the fact that publishers - whose "editorial standards are not what they were", in Pullman's view - have "no creative power whatsoever".
