Authors Sue AuthorHouseAlmost a year ago, David Gaughran wrote a post for IR called, ” Penguin’s New Business Model: Exploiting Writers “. In it, he outlined the details of how Penguin’s parent company, Pearson, purchased Author Solutions-which has a long history of providing questionable services at staggering prices-for $116 million.
via Indiereader
Authors sue AuthorHouse.
Turns out that, according to a claim filed by three unhappy authors, “Penguin Group’s self-publishing branch, Author Solutions, cheats writers of royalties and charges them to correct typos in manuscripts that the company itself inserted… ”
See: http://indiereader.com/2013/05/update-authors-sue-author-house/