I wonder--aloud--what it takes to put together a class action suit where the disparate people owed money act as a single unit.
I wonder--aloud--what it takes to put together a class action suit where the disparate people owed money act as a single unit.
How is that different than the situation that's currently happening?
Authors are reporting not having been paid royalties since June 2015. Most people's reversion requests are denied.
I'd rather see EC's income going to legitimate creditors instead of into the principal's pockets. And I'm really not sure how many creditors there would be, other than authors... my theory is that they're using author money to pay the rest of their bills (and themselves).
I know, I know. But some people are getting their rights back, I think.
Editors, designers, jacket designers, those bare-chested blokes who seem to have been employed to attend conferences... all need to be paid.
They need to be paid with the company's money, not mine.
But I assume any that are still working with the company are being paid, or else they would quit (a luxury authors don't have). With the "we don't edit or promote" approach, though, I don't think there are significant expenses associated with putting out new books.
All I want to know is... Where is my year's worth of royalties?
Paying for legal fees, stupid websites, and whatever else the principals decide to waste our money on?
I have started reissuing my books, so seeing these straggling old copies is very annoying.
I haven't received an e-mail, but from what I've seen of the one others received... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ct4xHCnWAAASwxk.jpg it's typical EC bullshit. Instead of doing the right thing, they're offering authors their rights back... in exchange for giving up any rights to outstanding royalties.
And since EC hasn't bothered to issue royalty statements for well over a year, and can't really be trusted to have issued accurate royalty statements prior to that, authors have no way of knowing exactly how much they're giving up. Nice.