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I invite all of you to comment upon genuine royalty issues that you have had with PA. Some of them are due, of course, to the very poor distribution and high prices and therefore miniscule sales - but I don't want to focus on that here. I'd rather focus on just the actual problems that people have in getting paid monies that are truly due.
I can think of three cases (at least) that have come up recently: Maria Pacha's situation where she was not paid for a book that was sold; Duped's situation where she has been paid with US checks which, as someone in the UK, she can't possibly cash (I consider this really nasty, for PA should not do business when their "authors" can't get paid); my situation, where PA mysteriously retyped my address into a place that doesn't exist and therefore my royalty checks were returned to them unopened (and they never communicated with me by email on the subject). They did, however, report my earnings to the IRS, which might have made it appear that I was committing fraud!
I think that by assembling a set of legitimate cases we can do a bit more to "take PA down". Perhaps Maria Pacha can use them to help persuade the arbiter; perhaps they can be used to convince potential authors of the problems of going with PA.
I can think of three cases (at least) that have come up recently: Maria Pacha's situation where she was not paid for a book that was sold; Duped's situation where she has been paid with US checks which, as someone in the UK, she can't possibly cash (I consider this really nasty, for PA should not do business when their "authors" can't get paid); my situation, where PA mysteriously retyped my address into a place that doesn't exist and therefore my royalty checks were returned to them unopened (and they never communicated with me by email on the subject). They did, however, report my earnings to the IRS, which might have made it appear that I was committing fraud!
I think that by assembling a set of legitimate cases we can do a bit more to "take PA down". Perhaps Maria Pacha can use them to help persuade the arbiter; perhaps they can be used to convince potential authors of the problems of going with PA.