Source: NYT

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.

In a suit filed in United States District Court in Washington yesterday, the authors Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter state that Eagle Publishing, which owns Regnery, “orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate.”

Some of the authors’ books have appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, including “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” by Mr. Corsi and John E. O’Neill (who is not a plaintiff in the suit), Mr. Patterson’s “Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security” and Mr. Miniter’s “Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror.” In the lawsuit the authors say that Eagle sells or gives away copies of their books to book clubs, newsletters and other organizations owned by Eagle “to avoid or substantially reduce royalty payments to authors.”

The authors argue that in reducing royalty payments, the publisher is maximizing its profits and the profits of its parent company at their expense.

“They’ve structured their business essentially as a scam and are defrauding their writers,” Mr. Miniter said in an interview, “causing a tremendous rift inside the conservative community.”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

“They’ve structured their business essentially as a scam and are defrauding their writers,” Mr. Miniter said in an interview



Watch the sharks tear each other up. Wow.

(fill in the blank here)" gee - sounds just like any/all repukes!

I've read books published by Regnery before, they publish some of the most God-awful books ever printed, the other way might be that guys like Richard Mellon Scaife buys them in bulk and puts them in some sort of warehouse (Which I hear might be partially true BTW).

The same thing that the authors complain about are the same things that make the books ersatz best-sellers to begin with. I know that for at least one of Coulter's diatribes, the pharmaceutical companies were buying them in bulk and handing them out free at events.

These idiots don't seem to understand that

Their Work Has No Value!!!

They SUCK!!! That's why the company GIVES AWAY their lousy shit!

The only value in their books is the paper, which could come in handy if you run out of your roll of Charmin or 7th Generation and you've just concluded a rather ripe, steamy and fetid session on the porcelain throne!

I would *love* to see how those contracts were drawn up...

:nopity:

Corsi and buddies are getting a little lesson in what true RW "family values" are all about. Something about a "moral compass"......

Seems like a solid, conservative business plan to me.

Why are these noted Republicans so unfriendly to business? My goodness, the corporation must be profitable at the expense of the people am I right?

I wonder if they will write a book about how stupid their ideas are when it actually effects them.

To their supposed business friendly ideology I say this: It is one thing to be wrong, it is another thing to make a fool of yourself proving you are wrong.

As long as it's the poor slob down the street who's being raped by the corporations for profits, who cares? But when *they* are robbed for profit, suddenly it's so unfair (stamping little foot).

What goes around comes around. Suck it up, losers.

Republicans become populists when...THEY are robbed for profit...(S)uddenly it's so unfair...Suck it up, losers.

and cue the DU "Cry Me A River" String Quartet!

:nopity::nopity::nopity::nopity:
rocknation

how many of these authors have vitrolly written of the evils of unions?

a division of Random House, when they began catering to Repugs.

to Regnery's actual strategic goal.

It would be interesting to read, should it get published.

Big, brave guy like him!

to run against John Kerry? What happened?

:rofl:

will publish the crap these idiots put out. Ann Coulter hasn't had an original thought in years. She's a one trick pony, but she gets her crap 'published' all the time.

Their incredibly lose rayalty standards are matched only by their incredibly untalented stable of writers.

They all deserve eash other.

Mz Pip
:dem:

:rofl::rofl::spray::nopity:

It couldn't have happened to nicer bunch of lowlifes.

business practices.:evilgrin:

Oh cry me a river already!

this is "pot vs pot"! How absolutely delicious!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Recommended

We figured this whole scam out around six years ago. I remember threads which explained the symbols on the NY Times bestseller list and how these conservative books would always have bulk purchases that upped their numbers.

The other day I was listening to the radio when I heard this guy on talking about abiotic oil. It was very interesting but the more I heard, the more every bone in my body was repelling the message and telling me the speaker was out of his mind.

Who was it? Jerry Corsi.

Freaking nut case.



Cher

:rofl:

Come on! What, do you expect to just walk in off the street and have someone hand you a million dollars? You gotta work your way up. That's the attitude that made this country great! Good old hard work and free market enterprise. Stop looking for a handout and earn your keep.

In other words, the authors' own readers are ripping them off. I love that.

I take it they honestly believe their trashy books would be on the bestseller lists if it wasn't for these same publisher tricks. The fringe right doesn't buy, let alone read books.

Hah... oh, the humanity.

I hope they bring the whole phoney system down!

Regnery is a vanity press, plain and simple. It's clearly understood that there will be no actual sales, that the books will go straight from the printing plant to free distribution. The authors' royalties are in the form of street-cred ("See, honey, I wrote a real book!), and the minuscule chance that they'll get picked up by a real publisher for any subsequent blithering screeds they excrete from their computers.

Sheesh! What ingratitude! They want *payment* from Regnery?

It's published by World Ahead Publishing, WND (World Net Daily) Books' partner.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article58533.html

These frauds are lucky to get published at all.

and she's hiring forensic investigators to look into it. I guess she needs money again. Isn't it about time for Paula Jones to resurface?

Anyone ever look at Newsmax.com, specifically the ads on that site? 50% or more are complete SCAMS imo. Newsmax feeds their readers to these wolves. Sometimes I even feel for these knuckle draggers. But the emotion passes quickly.

;)

http://www.regnery.com/eagle_manage.html

What a tool.

Sid

he wanted to start a branch of The Pat Sajak Fan Club at Virginia Tech. Two weeks later, he got a package just LOADED with Pat Sajak "goodies" - pictures, books, memorabilia, etc., which was actually pretty really cool: we had Pat Sajak dartboards all through my freshman year!

mikey_the_rat

Henry Regnery's House

I went to an estate sale there back in the summer. It must have been August, as the weather was really hot. It wasn't until I got there that it dawned on me that this was Henry Regnery's place.

If you're thinking of stalking him, you should know that he hasn't lived there for quite some time. This post does not put him at any risk. You can think whatever you want of the guy, but I wouldn't do that to him.

How could they even suggest such a thing? :rofl:

....think of all the poor trees that died for their crap!!! Besides, I'm sure that the royalties received is commensurate with the value of the text.

Which is ironically equal to this -

- K&R

Truly they are a morally bankrupt bunch.

Look, the Bushie Publishers willingly set the thing up to defraud Bushie Writers.

And of course, the Bushie Writers, lie to, con, and program the drones, suckers, or marks, whatever you want to call them.

Pretty funny, pretty ironic and VERY TELLING.

The whole Bushie tyrannical enterprise is set up as a scheme to defraud their followers and eeryone else.

Hopefully they will beat each other's brains out.

Their books are trash and not even worth a discounted price. They should be glad to make any money.

Source: NYT

November 7, 2007
Conservative Authors Sue Publisher

By MOTOKO RICH

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.

In a suit filed in United States District Court in Washington yesterday, the authors Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray and Richard Miniter state that Eagle Publishing, which owns Regnery, “orchestrates and participates in a fraudulent, deceptively concealed and self-dealing scheme to divert book sales away from retail outlets and to wholly owned subsidiary organizations within the Eagle conglomerate.”

Some of the authors’ books have appeared on the New York Times best-seller list, including “Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry,” by Mr. Corsi and John E. O’Neill (who is not a plaintiff in the suit), Mr. Patterson’s “Dereliction of Duty: The Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National Security” and Mr. Miniter’s “Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush Is Winning the War on Terror.” In the lawsuit the authors say that Eagle sells or gives away copies of their books to book clubs, newsletters and other organizations owned by Eagle “to avoid or substantially reduce royalty payments to authors.”

The authors argue that in reducing royalty payments, the publisher is maximizing its profits and the profits of its parent company at their expense.

“They’ve structured their business essentially as a scam and are defrauding their writers,” Mr. Miniter said in an interview, “causing a tremendous rift inside the conservative community.”...cont'd



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html?ex=1195102800&en=d1cb87cb7266f31f&ei=5070&emc=eta1

and this just shows how Regnery is getting around having that dagger show up on the NYT best sellers list.

Too funny. The only point of that operation is to create pundits.

could get on the Best Sellers list.

This is also a black eye for the NYT. Their list is being gamed and they just played along.

I was in a Dollar Store and saw his book (this was in about '94 or '95) was in the store. I thought "wow that guy isn't going to last long"

Funny how you can game the capitalist system through advertising especially in the group think world that this country has become.

and in other words, the authors are basically admitting that no one is really buying their books - I imagine the same is true of other "best sellers" like Coulter.

The whole idea is to give the impression there are large numbers of conservatives when they represent a much smaller minority. They want the majority to think they are the minority.
Perception is everything and polls are what most depend on for their perceptions.

those guys need a laugh now and then.


:rofl:

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because they are not making their fair share from fucking America. This is a "frivolous lawsuit".

...and you get kneed in the con.