AuthorHouse review: Authors not being paid for all sales 86

I been cheated by Author House for a long time now. They published my book in 2005 and only received 3 royalty from them.

I am in the same scam, published 2 books through AuthorHouse, "Competing With The Shadow" and "No Graffiti In Heaven" and have seen reviews of sales, used books advertised and friends purchased the book through book stores and NEVER received but one small royalty check. The left portion of the cover of one of them is being used by someone on Facebook and I repeatedly remind them I own the copyright. All the long hours we as Authors put into our creative work, the high cost we paid and then not receive our royalties is just wrong.
Carla J. Akin
Carla.j.akin@outlook.com

Their stole my book also someone please contact us!

Hi. I think I f all of us put together and get a lawyer we will get back oir money. They took £2020 from me and i publish my book myself and they won't give me my money back.

I published one book with Author House in January of 2021. It is called Counterweight-A Balancing Act by the Alien God Osiris. It has received 10 five star reviews and one 4 start review on Amazon. After one year I have received about $60.00 in royalties. I have no idea other than those reviews, how the book has really sold. The amount of money in royalties would indicate it has sold almost none. Being a new Author, I had no idea about the business, but have been learning fast. Back in Oct. or Nov. of 2021 I paid Author House, about $1,500.00 to do an e-book promotion and was told that I would get the results of my promotion this month, after the quarter ended. I called out of curiosity to find out when this month, and they told me that I would not know until the end May or early June because they report sales and royalties 60 days after the quarter which is contradictory to what I was told when I accepted the sales promotion deal. I know that Amazon publishes sales reports monthly, and it would seem ludicrous that Author House does not have even one idea of how my book has done. They have kicked the can down the road on providing me with the information. I received this today. "I have outlined the posting schedule of the final sales and royalty report below for your reference.

First Quarter – January to March – Quarterly report is posted last week of May or early June

Second Quarter – April to June- Quarterly report is posted last week of August or early September

Third Quarter- July to September- Quarterly report is posted last week of November or early December

Fourth Quarter- October to December- Quarterly report is posted last week of February of the following year or early March."

I will take action against this company, if they do not provide me with some idea of my sales. based upon our original agreement.

They sent me a prior email which said I received the following: December 08 - February 05, 2022

Total Impressions:

40,828 on BookBub e-mails. and from December 08 - February 05, 2022

Total Impressions: 665,968 on Facebook

They were able to provide the amount of impressions for both sales outlets but refuse to tell me if even one e-book was sold out of over 700,000 impressions that were reported. They said," An impression is generated every time your ad is displayed to a site visitor." Which does not mean someone will buy the e-book.

The e-book sale price was only .99 cents, which is an amount not worth discussing, but never-the-less it would seem that at least one person would splurge a whopping 99 cents and get one. So I went along with the promotion hoping for a volume of buys and at least enough to recover my investment. and maybe make a profit. From the time the promo started to when I'll get some news, 7 months would have transpired. That's a ridiculous amount of time not to know anything. I refuse to believe that they have NO IDEA if my book sold at all. It would seem to me that they are being paid by Amazon, who handles the sales. I have just completed another novel and will be seeking another publisher. I was thinking of Amazon.

I do not know if I will have any success with getting the information I requested from Author House, but I am drafting a complaint to the States AG, pending their response to my e-mail.

I will follow up on here with what happens.

P.S. What is a shame is that they were terrific in getting the book done at the outset and their customer service was excellent. I would hate to see a budding relationship end on a sour note. I hope they come through.

I published my first 3 books with these cowboys.

In over 6years not a red cent was paid to me even though thousands of copies sold by them.

My books are all over bookshops in North America and online bookshops but I have been conned out of my earnings.

1. Crazy Mistakes We Pastors Make

2. The Pastor inthe Mirror

3.Freed to Greed

Author: Tunde Babalola

PLEASE AVOID THEM

I am consulting an attorney at this time regarding royalty income. I finally realized that Author House is running a Scam operation!

My name is Sverre Ange and I got took as well I haven't seen one dime they have taken my book and used it for personal gain. Prayer and infinite you is nation wide all over the world nothing but scammers.

Contact me at bearafun@yahoo.com I'm iniating a class action lawsuit because AuthorHouse is scamming its authors out of royalties