Right-Wingers are the Most Spoiled Whiners on the Planet

Let's see, according to this morning's Times, here: "Five authors have sued the parent company of Regnery Publishing, a Washington imprint of conservative books, charging that the company deprives its writers of royalties by selling their books at a steep discount to book clubs and other organizations owned by the same parent company." I gotta laugh. Right-wingers are the most spoiled whiners on the planet. Hello, shmoes, everybody wants their books sold to book clubs, and they are always sold at a "steep discount." What you lose in price you more than make up in volume, and it provides terrific word of mouth (assuming your book is any good). I'm sorry, but Jerome R. Corsi, Bill Gertz, Lt. Col. Robert (Buzz) Patterson, Joel Mowbray, and Richard Miniter would not exactly be burning up the best-seller lists without this kind of thing. These guys' problem is that they didn't read their contracts; the royalty rate for direct sales to book clubs is defined there, and if they had a problem with their rate, they should have taken their books somewhere else.

Read the whole Altercation here.