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I couldn't get a sales report out of my publisher. They just said, "It hasn't earned back its advance" and wouldn't tell me what the sales were. To know that it hadn't earned back its advance, they would have to have figures, right? So why not share them with the author?
Also, their lawyer was the rudest person I've ever corresponded with, answering the simplest inquiry snidely and dismissively. I remember, after having no contact with them for two or three years, I wrote offering to BUY back the rights to my book. I figured that they weren't doing anything with it, they might welcome the chance to get a good chunk of their advance back. The lawyer wrote back that I had no right to ASK for the rights back!
After that, I just let the clock run out and the rights reverted, they got nothing.
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