Regnery Books Screws Its Conservative Authors

The hypocrisy is priceless! Thou Shalt Not Steal from conservatives. Ha!
Welcome to the real world of corporate money conservative authors.
Conservative Authors Sue Publisher By MOTOKO RICH
Published: November 7, 2007

Regnery Publishing Company is famous for publishing mostly conservative writers' books.

"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."

Most authors do not get rich writing. Most writers do not get the royalties we think are due us.
I know this for a fact as I have six books under my belt (seven if I count my Children's book I wrote especially for my grandson) and I am so not rich. My Books

I'm thinking that Regnery learned how to screw its own by reading so many of the conservative books it publishes.

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."

Anyways, its just business per usual on the other side. At least some hypocrisy is humorous.