Conservative Authors Sue Publisher (priceless)

[Hamlette]

Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company.


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html?ex=1352178000&en=c5b1f6cbdba9e2be&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

Regnery can't sell the tripe at full price so it discounts it and the hacks that wrote the crap complain.

You can't make this stuff up.

[sasquatch]

1. At half price books they got those books ultra-cheap

Hell some are "buy one-get one" free.

[Swamp Rat]

2. I thought 'Conservative Authors' were against lawyers and litigation?

:shrug:

[ingac70]

3. Like anyone would pay full price for their crap....

They should be thankful those "books" are getting sold at all.

[physioex]

4. They were never sold.....

Essentially was publisher was selling the books to themselves which made the books best sellers...

[defendandprotect]

5. This idea goes all the way back to Nixon . . .

So if you can't sell right-wing ideas in books, how is it that their ideas have flooded
our MSM for decades --- ???

[physioex]

6. Beats the crap outta me...

Actually I am old enough to rememeber Cronkite doing CBS news and 60 minutes was very good a long long time ago. Since Raygun took office everything has become slowly RW, but I don't care for the media very much anymore. I am turning more towards blogs to get my news.....

[defendandprotect]

9. I think most of us are --- and according to ratings, which I haven't seen lately ---

[rwenos]

7. "Remaindering"

I worked in the publishing business for awhile. Every writer's contract with a publisher allows the publisher to "remainder" the books that don't sell - i.e., sell the leftover stock for deep discounts, without paying royalties to the authors.

So these pricks agreed to the "remaindering" arrangement when they accepted the advance bucks.

These guys can dish it out, but they can't take it. Gutless little weasels.

[tsuki]

8. So the conservative authors actually are believing the hype. Best

selling frauds are what they are.

Oh well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. Republicans are nothing if not greedy.

Here's hoping everyone involved runs up HUGH attorney fees. I'm series!!11!! Let the aparagus be cast!11! Assnine morans11!!!!111

[marmar]

10. AH-HAHAHAHAHAHA.....

What a collection of miscreants.