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Conservative Authors Sue Regnery

Five conservative authors--Jerome R. Corsi (Unfit for Command), Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson (Dereliction of Duty), Joel Mowbray (Dangerous Diplomacy), and Richard Miniter (Shadow War & Losing Bin Laden)--are suing Regnery Publishing. "They've structured their business essentially as a scam and are defrauding their writers," Miniter told the New York Times, "causing a tremendous rift inside the conservative community."

Basically, the authors' gripe involves the relationship between Regnery and the Conservative Book Club, both of which are owned by Eagle Publishing. Regnery sells books at a deep discount to the Conservative Book Club, which in turn sells the books at deep discount to club members. In the process, authors forgo much of the royalties they would have received had those books been sold in stores. "The difference between 10 cents and $4.25 is pretty large when you multiply it by 20,000 to 30,000 books," Mr. Miniter told the Times. "It suddenly occurred to us that Regnery is making collectively jillions of dollars off of us and paying us a pittance."

http://www.flynnfiles.com/archives/culture2007/conservative_authors_sue_regnery.html

I talked to an editor of the New York Times Bestseller list, and she tried to explain (the parts that she could) the complicated formula to me (at least it seemed complicated to me). Apparently, they use numbers supplied by bookstores who have preapplied to supply numbers to them. They do encourage small book stores to get involved. After they get the numbers, they get together and talk about a bunch of stuff I didn't understand and that's how you get on the list. You still have to sell a lot of books, but the placement is not only based on book sales.

........is Obama Nation really a best-seller? The New York Times puts a dagger next to some books, indicating that "some bookstores report receiving bulk orders." Among the Times' top 16 non-fiction books for August 24, three others -- Stori Telling, a memoir by actress Tori Spelling (#3), The Case Against Barack Obama by David Freddoso, published by Regnery (#5), and Fleeced, another anti-Obama book by conservative political operative and pundit****Morris and coauthor Eileen McGann (#8) -- have similar daggers............

Simon & Schuster doesn't know how many of Corsi's books were purchased through bulk orders or whether any conservative groups were part of a bulk-order scheme. .............

a staff-person at a major book review told me that while some publishers, authors and interest groups have learned how to "game the system" by orchestrating bulk orders in multiple locations, publications with best-seller lists, including the prestigious New York Times,

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/53627.html

I mean, to sit there and write something about how single mothers are to blame for violence increases in society is flat out ridiculous alone within itself.

ingle parent families also tend to have lower incomes (and lower income kids also tend to be more likely to end up in prison).

I know kids are more likley to be abused by the mother 's boyfriend then by dad's girlfriend, so there is the absuse quotient to consider too.

lar

oh, another stat that i found from a twenty five longitudinal study done by wallerstein et al; children of divorce are less likely to achieve the same socioeconomic status as thier parents, and based on wallerstein's findings, only 30% of the children from divorced families recieved financial help in paying for college in comparison to children of intact families - even after controlling for all other variables. of course, this is a stat that no one has yet mentioned. i don't think ann discussed it. i found it interesting because it seemed to mirror my own experience and that of my friends who also came from divorced families.

ann coulter is 100% right on this issue. you may not like HOW she says it, but she is 100% correct about the effects of single motherhood/divorce. there is an overwhelming preponderance of research to back her up.

the fact that 40% of births last year were to single mothers is ominous for the future of this society.

lar

What amazes me, is that there was a time when people just instinctively knew the best environment for raising a child is within the confines of a loving marriage. It was just plain old common sense. Now we actually have to debate that because the left tries to muddy the water enough to confuse people?

Maybe you should take down the straw man.

I would hope that most people over the age of eight can recognize an opinion without it being pointed out to them, or understand that a generalization is a mechanism for describing a general pattern(and not a statement of an absolute law), but maybe I have more optimism about people's ability to think for themselves and not feel compelled to quibble about conventions that don't have anything to do with the topic at hand than I should.