PublishAmerica Asks authors to Pay for sales reports

Who would pay $49 to see a weekly report of zero sales? PublishAmerica is hoping that their authors will plunk down the cash to see a for themselves that they have earned a big fat goose egg.

There is always a flurry of complaints when it is time for Publish to pay up. At royalty time, an author can see for themselves that neither his mother nor Auntie Fanny bought his book. No sales means no royalty payments. Then there is the $49 royalty escrow. Read the news contracts. If one has $50 in sales an author will only be paid a single dollar because the escrow fund has to be maintained. That $49 will stay in escrow until the contract expires or is terminated. Even then the author will, likely, have to ask for it. Several times. How many "tone" letters they will get in the process is anybody's guess.

When business is conducted in this manner the escrow account must be a separate account and PublishAmerica LLLP can not use these owed royalties funds for anything other than paying an author. Do they resist the temptation not to touch these funds?

PublishAmerica has always maintained that if an author comes to their office (or sends an auditor on their behalf) all they will see in the records is what they receive with their royalty statement. Now they are selling authors a weekly report with much more than royalty statement information.

To the plethora of authors who have complained all over the Internet about book sales, or lack thereof, PublishAmerica has finally given them what they have been asking for. Fork over the money first.


Dear author:

With your book's list price now at a record low, how does your book sell? Will you see a change in sales results? Where does the book better than elsewhere?
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For the next six months you will receive a weekly report, 26 weeks in a row, about what we know about your book's sales. How many copies have sold? Where have they sold? This spans the entire next royalty period, which runs through next January. No surprises, no long waiting; you'll know exactly what to expect and where to expect it from. You will know how to adjust your own promotional activities, what to change, what not to change as time evolves. Weekly Sales Updates also include information about your book's rankings with sellers who generate sales rankings.
Go to www.publishamerica.net/WeeklySales.html to activate for a low $49. You will receive your first Weekly Sales Update next week. Valid for one book title at a time.