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Posted on entry AuthorHouse Found Guilty ::: November 19, 2009, 12:49 AM:
What really is problematic with being an author and having a book published by a POD publisher is the lack of access to actual sales across the world, the publisher has that nailed down along with the seller, this seems to me a great opportunity between the two to harvest any and all
sales for themselves; with the ISBN# it looks like the author somehow could with password access
key in actual sales as well as the two; I wrote the govt agency who is watchdog over ISBN #'s and they told me; those two only had those numbers and the distributors, if you can afford to hire a lawyer, that would be the only other option.
Posted on entry AuthorHouse Found Guilty ::: September 03, 2009, 03:15 PM:
Paula: the name of my book is: "Liberalization and Apostasy of America", if you google and yahoo it, you will see it has been given alot of hoopla,
on Amazon.com and it's foreign affiliates at the bottom of their page, it is on all but China. I have found it on Borders, Booksamillion, Barnes &
Nobles, Target.com and Australian and Ireland, Indian[India] and many others, all that said, selling is the next objective, there has to be an hundred million books out there to dig it out of,
audience would be all Americans[young and old]it is a call to all Americans to repent and turn back to the God of her Fathers, we have drifted from our spiritual moorings, we have all but told God he is not welcome in our country, that he brought us to and made us great, my audience could also be whosoever reads my book,I am seeing
quite abit of apologizing to foreign countries today for America, what a joke ! We don't owe anyone in the world an apology for all the blood we have shed and funds we gave for the world's freedom[I am a Korean vet myself]I don't recall
preaching in any of my articles above, I know there are many successful authors,whether you can call what they have written good is another issue;
my book is only ten chapters, 60 pages, about 13,000 words, but distinct to the point,I didn't
come on here to argue, fuss, fume, or fight, but to learn, I am hoping if my book is successful and
sells, my publisher will be honest with me, I am
likewise putting out feelers and inquirys also, even as a Christian, I have learned to be kinda
skeptical until I learn different, I want to trust people, but money seems to be a deviding line for trust today; I like what my favorite President said: Trust, but verify.[Ronald Reagan].
Posted on entry AuthorHouse Found Guilty ::: September 02, 2009, 12:38 AM:
I hope you guys don't think I am amused at your
problem with Authorhouse, not at all, I retired from 43 years in the auto industry[parts sales,mgr.,new car-truck sales] excelled in the latter, but it was more professional than today's world and your word was your bond, if you promised something; then do it and lying ? I have no use for a liar.I was in the business of helping people, sadly in the nineties, problems began to mushroom in the auto industry, honesty was out, selling was no matter what, car business went to hell in a handbasket and now most of the conglomerates are reaping what they have sown and it is true with every other business in America today, I had a boss-owner who told all who worked for him; if you lie to a customer and I find it out, you are history, his name is Rick Hendrick,
owns Nascar teams, largest dealer in America, good Christian man, people trusted us and I haven't heard of any of his dealerships biting the dust, I came on here because I saw something
I wanted to further check out and verify, when I check for a hotel resort, one complaint makes me move on, I see that one as me, even if everybody else raves about it, I have been disapointed too many times in my life, I have stayed in million dollar condos before and door locks were broke and I raised hell about it, consumers deserve their disclaimers rectified, customers are getting to be a scarce commodity these days, how you treat someone will come home to you, sorry for the lengthly letter.
Clarence Puckett
Posted on entry AuthorHouse Found Guilty ::: September 01, 2009, 11:28 PM:
Sorry Fellows; I don't work for Authorhouse; what I have shared with you is truth; they have been fair to me and so far honest; I gave out about 20
of my free copies and all I have gotten back is good reports so far, I welcome any criticism, even yours, if you are looking for perfection, I'm
not your man, but I do try hard for getting things right, so far I have tracked my book all over the globe, in sixty days or so, it is #1 in some catagories, go to amazon.com and click on apostasy and then last 90 days and up pops my book, and it is emerging out of the cracks and crevices other places, with hundreds of millions of books out in the market, it is dificult to have a winner, I want to believe it is yet to be a best seller, sure praying so.
Posted on entry AuthorHouse Found Guilty ::: July 29, 2009, 03:21 PM:
My book has only been out since June the 24th this year[2009]I expect it to do well; optomistic,
I didn't bother with the other publishers, their names did it for me[lulu]PA, I am sure packages would have been about the same or there would have been additional add-ons and maybe poor quality, I have had nothing so far but good comments on the quality of my book, given away about twenty copies, no negative input so far, it is hard to break into #1 spot as a beginning author, but just maybe it will happen; it is on anywhere in the world that Amazon is and Australia
book stores,UK, Japan, Germany, France, Barnes and Nobles, Borders, trying to get Costco to carry it now and some Christian Book Stores, I have put it on all my websites and Twitter, Facebook, given half of my givaways to people in my church in hopes they will share it and tell others about it.
Posted on entry AuthorHouse Found Guilty ::: July 09, 2009, 01:52 PM:
Is this site still alive ? I am with authorhouse now and have had a pretty good publishing experience with them; they took my manuscript totally apart and red-lined it, did not bother my pride at all, but it did produce a good book, very professionaly done end result, one problem only with them, they promised me five extra books
upon my commit to them, having a problem now getting them; word of mouth is not good business,
other than that, they have been pretty up on all
my contacts, I searched the net with a fervor until I found someone I could trust and put confidence in, my book is out and about the net and book stores even across the pond[ocean]if you are not a noted author, you just have to do your research, Lulu and PA I don't reccomend at all.

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