26, Report:
#990454
Posted Date:
Jan 03 2013
AuthorHouse Read Before Signing With AuthorHouse Internet
My experience with AuthorHouse was a costly nightmare. As a
matter of policy, AuthorHouse won't disclose the royalty rate it will pay
authors or the estimated publication cost of a book, even when asked directly.
Royalty rates can't be found on their website and employees woul...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
27, Report:
#515476
Posted Date:
Oct 26 2012
AuthorHouse Publishing Scam Bloomington, Indiana
I published my book with Author House in 2004.
I have not received any royalty payments from the date of
publication till date and over the years I have seen my book being sold all
around the world at different prices in new and used copies, when I asked
Autho...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
28, Report:
#903064
Posted Date:
Jun 26 2012
authorhouse publishing authorhouse publishing well the company ripped me off as a client bloomington, Indiana
contracting with authorhouse to self publish was the biggest mistake i ever made in my 59 years. they insisted i change the city location of my book i complied. they subtly kept on trying to extract more and more money out of me ,they sold me a fantasy an sadly i bought ...
Entity
Categories: Correctional Facilities
29, Report:
#889028
Posted Date:
May 27 2012
iuniverse iuniverse/authorhouse II got screwed over Internet, Internet
Thank you...for all the positive emails I received after filing my complaint against iuniverse/authorhouse. Keep them coming...Christopher Iuniverse actually contacted me to resolve my issues to no avail, of course.&n...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
30, Report:
#876528
Posted Date:
May 01 2012
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Author House Publishing Deception, they made alot of promises they did not keep. Internet
I paid Authorhouse a little over 1,300 dollars for the editing of my book, media alert, personalized picture of myself and standard paperback publishing. My book is terrible, it has mispelled words after editing was approved, my picture was not added and th...
Entity
Categories: Book & Magazine Publishers
31, Report:
#845937
Posted Date:
Feb 28 2012
Authorhouse Author Solutions BREACH OF CONTRACT , Internet
Authorhouse claims that a writer can receive a refund, minus $300, for publishing packages, providing your book has not gone to publishing yet. After hearing their pricing structure, I elected to discontinue my association with Authorhouse, which I did in writing via emai...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
32, Report:
#449841
Posted Date:
Feb 11 2012
Authorhouse Publishing-Dog Ear And All The Rest Ripoff is underestamating Indianapolis Indiana
Sadly I feel good to see I am not alone here!
I work very hard to write about my life to give hope to others, to find out that my editor and Dog Ear publishing have decided to contract between each other and not to tell me about it. the package I picked did included advertisement...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
33, Report:
#710889
Posted Date:
Sep 18 2011
AuthorHouse Author Solutions; Kevin Weiss unreasonable; dishonest; lay-offs; over-worked Bloomington, Illinois
If you've had a bad experience with ASI, you're not alone. It's not an isolated event, and chances are you probably have more reasons to be pissed off than you're even aware of. Two years ago, Author Solutions Inc (ASI) /AuthorHouse CEO Kevin Weiss was gladly accepting money from Mi...
Entity
Categories: Work Place Bullies
34, Report:
#729227
Posted Date:
Sep 01 2011
AuthorHouse, Inc manuscript,books,publisher,self-publishing,self-publisher,scam,fraud,falseclaims,printing,books Bloomington, Indiana
In considering the publishing of my new manuscript and how best to make it into the best possible marketable book, I saw AuthorHouse, Inc. on the Internet. While I was not sure how a self-publishing book would reach the market place, and other things having to do with whether theman...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
35, Report:
#758823
Posted Date:
Sep 01 2011
AUTHORHOUSE PUBLISHING AUTHORHOUSE DID NOT PAY ROYALTIES TO ME THAT BOOK STORES PAID TO BUY MY BOOK. BLOOMINGTON, Indiana
Hello, my name is Christian Plett and I have searched bookstores on-line and it clearly says that my book is in-stock. That word IN-Stock means exactly what it says, and I would like to know why they don't like to pay their authors for what book stores ...
Entity
Categories: Book Stores
36, Report:
#762005
Posted Date:
Aug 07 2011
Authorhouse Solutions Mr Kevin Weiss Eugene Hopkins Knowingly deceived me Bloomington, Other
Authorhouse pestered me to publish my book with them which I did, after publication serious errors were made by all the house which were eventually amended. Second publication appeared, shortly after its appearance I was contacted by Eugene Hopkins who knowingly led me to believe he...
Entity
Categories: Book Stores
37, Report:
#506357
Posted Date:
Jun 01 2011
Authorhouse I haven't received royalties from AuthorHouse inspite of the fact that I'm finding my book all over the web and being sold overseas even. Internet
I saw another report here on the Ripoff report about AuthorHouse that was similar to my same complaint against the company. Now I had a book published with them back in 2005 called 'Mound Bayou'. At first I was taking their word for it that no copies of the book had been sold for I ...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
38, Report:
#717768
Posted Date:
Apr 15 2011
iUniverse Author House - AuthorHouse - Xlibris - Bertram Capital Management - Author Solutions - Trafford Publishing - Wordclay DANGER! BEWARE! FRAUD! and let's not forget CLASS ACTION Internet
I sat in the Bada Bing today and thought about this awful situation for a long time. The corporate officers and certain employees of these entities deserve to be pictured in handcuffs on the front page of every significant newspaper in the world, and featured on ...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
39, Report:
#701270
Posted Date:
Mar 01 2011
Authorhouse publishing Company Athorhouse publishing Company is a Big RIP- OFF Bloomington , Indiana
In 2007-2008 I had books published with this company. I have only received 1 Royalty payment of $9.00. I was thinking that my books was not selling until people started tell me how they had ordered them. I have not received the rest of my Royalty payments! Authorhouse is a BIG,...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
40, Report:
#697222
Posted Date:
Feb 19 2011
AuthorHouse rip-off, scam, bait-and-switch, books, book, publisher, fraud Bloomington, Indiana
AuthorHouse is a SCAM.
They use Bait-and-Switch tactics and downright lies.
Stay away from them!
My problem could have been worse. I got out before getting seriously screwed - and will hopefully get my $$ back. Here's the abbreviated version:
So a salesperson ...
Entity
Categories: Bait-and-Switch
41, Report:
#543631
Posted Date:
Feb 12 2011
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Perission Publishing, Perission Entertainment, Becky Purcell, Harry Keane BP, HK, [email protected], [email protected] Beware Harry Keane, Perission Publishing, selling books on-line, Becky Purcell, [email protected] Garland, Texas
Beware of internet sales by Perission Publishing
Becky Purcell's name and e-mail address are both attached to the ad.
However, this might be Harry copying and using Becky's name.
The number 866-402-9804 on the ad will only ask you to leave a message
Peris...
Entity
Categories: Producers
42, Report:
#672845
Posted Date:
Dec 18 2010
Xlibris Scam Xlibris Corporation Fraud Bloomington, Internet
Quite simply, Xlibris is a fraudulent, dishonest and incompetent, disaster zone. Xlibris is nothing more than a quick-buck scam printer, posing as a "print-on-demand publisher", and it has one of the highest complaints percentages for a small business of it's type - with n...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
43, Report:
#672744
Posted Date:
Dec 17 2010
AuthorHouse Iuniverse AuthorHouse is a money-laundering scam that was found guilty of fraud in a US Court Bloomington, Indiana
AuthorHouse formerly 1st Books, is a notorious vanity publisher. This company is a bogus scam and was found guilty by a US circuit judge in 2006 of committing fraud. Do not give this company your money, they have appalling distribution, inept management, fraudulent accounting practi...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
44, Report:
#642154
Posted Date:
Sep 19 2010
authorhouse publisher I published two books with them my books are selling all over and they never paid me any royalties bloomington, Indiana
authorhouse is a book publisher who continues to fraud all there authors out of our royalties and money, our books sell all over the internet, amazon, barnes&noble and other book stores there are over two hundred complaints against them yet the attorney general in Ind...
Entity
Categories: Miscellaneous Companies
45, Report:
#641832
Posted Date:
Sep 18 2010
Xlibris/Authorhouse Not Reporting Royalties Bloomington, Indiana
I have a self-published book listed with Xlibris/Authorhouse, and according to their records my book is not selling. Pertaining to this, I can accept the fact that my book might-not be selling. But, what I have a problem with: is that a reader (outside the United St...
Entity
Categories: Computer Fraud
46, Report:
#638330
Posted Date:
Sep 07 2010
Authorhouse Royalty Ripoff Bloomington, Indiana
To my utter misfortune, I became acquainted and started to use the services offered by 1stBooks publishers now known as Authorhouse, and published my first two books in 2003. At the time, I detected no problem with their services and accepted that being my work was academic,...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
47, Report:
#601446
Posted Date:
May 09 2010
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'authorhouse' Eugene Hopkins. Tim Davies, Dean Shah Internet
AUTHORHOUSE ILLEGAL SCAM UNCOVERED. Last year Tony Liddicoat sacked 'authorhouse publishing company' who he had paid handsomely for publishing his book, Five Bells ~ Job Done. A Divers Story. During his association with the...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers
48, Report:
#188278
Posted Date:
Mar 30 2010
Authorhouse Publishers ripoff they took my money to publish book, their check bounced, they put in on ebay as generic with different cover Blomington Indiana
i had Moments in Time (poetry book) published. I paid them eleven hundred dollars for it. I had to have my son do the cover as they were terrible. Still had to pay for the cover later.
They have sold over 100 books to my friends on the Poetry Workshop, relatives, and friends. ...
Entity
Categories: Con Artists
50, Report:
#529913
Posted Date:
Nov 28 2009
AuthorHouse Publishing Company Trafford Publishing 30 day turn around. What a laugh Milton Keynes, Internet
AuthorHouse, which I am informed originates in the United States, having an office based in England (Milton Keynes), is the name that comes up, first, when seeking a publishing house that will undertake work for budding authors. AuthorHouse promises a 30 day turn around, that it is ...
Entity
Categories: Book Publishers