{"id":595,"date":"2013-05-02T09:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T13:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=595"},"modified":"2013-05-02T11:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T15:51:25","slug":"vanity-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"VANITY UNFAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Authors Sue AuthorHouse<\/a>Almost 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.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Authors sue AuthorHouse.
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Turns out that, according to a claim filed by three unhappy authors, \u201cPenguin Group\u2019s self-publishing branch, Author Solutions, cheats writers of royalties and charges them to correct typos in manuscripts that the company itself inserted<\/em>\u2026 \u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See:\u00a0http:\/\/indiereader.com\/2013\/05\/update-authors-sue-author-house\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u00a0Authors sue AuthorHouse. … Continue reading VANITY UNFAIR<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}