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.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/books/07cons.html?_r=2&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print


bwahahahahahaha! You stupid fucks are getting exactly what you deserve. I hope Regenery swindles you out of all of your money. :toast:

calling themselves commies and blathering on about how that is how the free market works and if they don't like it they can move to china?

(if I had a similar pic of Kerry, I'd use it here):



dg

Regenery's authors can't possibly think that sane people will go out of their way to read hit pieces, badly written and full of libel. Of course they go for bulk buying to those conservative organizations that use the crap as premiums for their contributors. Most of it sits unread on shelves for a very good reason.

Since Kerry was too much of a gentleman and a total wimp to sue those bastards for libel in 2004, we'll have to be content with the colossal egos of their stable of writers who think they've been cheated out of the riches they deserve for printing lies about their betters.