E-books and book sales as reported by publishers to authors are way off

[Werehawk]

If you're an author and have books published by one of the big publishers you might want to do a check on if the figures they are sending you on your actual e-book sales are accurate. Kristine Kathryn Rusch recently started taking a hard look at what was being reported in her royalty statements by her publishers and found quite a few anomalies as far as what was being reported and actual sales. When she started checking with other authors she was not the only author to notice that something was way off in what they were being told by their publishers and agents.
It used to be very difficult or impossible for an author to get access to their actual sales figures but that has changed with bookscan sales figures being cheaply and readily accessible and its becoming an issue that is about to explode in the faces of publishers who have been systematically under stating sales to authors in their royalty statements.
See:
http://kriswrites.com/201...usch-royalty-statements/
and the update
http://kriswrites.com/201...yalty-statements-update/
Also worth reading:
http://kriswrites.com/201...ch-trust-me/   Book publishing and authors.
http://kriswrites.com/201...sea-changes/   What is happening with publishing.
Side note to Bob this may have to be moved into politics as it may prove a bit incendiary....
--Werehawk--
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