Authors sign bad contract for 10% of net rather than usual 15% of gross, get screwed by publisher selling at cost, and then pull out this wonder:

“It suddenly occurred to us that Regnery is making collectively jillions of dollars off of us and paying us a pittance.” He added: “Why is Regnery acting like a Marxist cartoon of a capitalist company?”

And might this have something to do with it?

“These guys created the conservative book market,” Mr. Mowbray said. “Before them, conservatives were having to fight, generally unsuccessfully, to get books published.”

Via Gruber.