Regnery is a conservative publisher that publishes books by conservatives that other publishers won’t. It’s part of a few conservative media that were designed to forward and agenda, not make money.
Now some of the writers published by Regnery are suing them (it’s also looked at here, here, here, here (Jane also talks a bit about another conservative operation Pajama Media), and I’m sure many other places).
What’s happened is that Regnery has bought copies of their books to artificially inflate the sales and then sold them at little or no profit, which means the authors get little money for these ’sales’.
I can’t figure out if these authors are stupid, egotistical, or greedy (of course, it could be a combination). Here are the two possibilities that I can think of:
- they don’t understand that this process was designed to sell more books and think they would have sold just as many books at full price (the stupid/egotistical angle).
- they know they wouldn’t have sold as many, but think they can make a bit more money by suing (greed–ok, I don’t think I had to tell you that).
In either case, the authors don’t look too good–of course, they include people who wrote books like ‘Swift Boat’ so they might not care.
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