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Originally Posted by crich70
I can't argue with you that it is easy to claim you are someone you aren't on the net, but I would think it might be harder to do some things. Like explain why the funds earned are in someone else's name. I mean if I claimed to be Bram Stoker (assuming he were alive) and yet funds earned for Dracula etc. were to go into another bank account under another name I'd think it would raise a few eyebrows. And Mrs. Stewart was still alive in 2011 so how can anyone be sure that she didn't open the smashwords account herself? Alas we can't ask her personally as she died back in May.
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Crich:
But nobody claimed to BE Mary Stewart. They solely claim to be KGStudios. That's hardly difficult. And the funds would go to their DBA. Not to put too fine a point on it, but scads (thousands) of authors use DBAs for their imprint names, and those monies go directly to their own personal bank accounts, without any issue. I know they do for several of my clients, who never bothered to set up a corp or even an LLC. It's easy-peasy. In fact, all those erotica writers ALL essentially have publisher and noms and DBAs, and they all seem to get their money just fine.
I think that's conflation: nobody claimed to be the late great Mary Stewart, just some publishing entity. Hell...I wonder if you could fake a letter? Fake a letter, make a copy, scan that, scan it again, and send THAT to Coker? (Not implying, in ANY way, that Coker, et al, are complicit in this, you understand). How hard would that be? Particularly for a woman who has probably signed thousands, if not tens of thousands of autographs? On an estate that may or may not be sophisticated enough to LOOK for that one lousy set of 3 books on a not-famous (in the outer world) website?
Just saying. Sorry, but I'm no criminal mastermind, and even I can think of 5 different ways that they could get it up there with little or no difficulty, unless someone REALLY followed it up. Someone like an entity with Amazon's resources. And again, I gotta ask: if it's legit, WHERE is the copy that was up on Amazon in 2011? I feel it speaks volumes (no pun intended) by its absence, unless someone else saw it?
Hitch