Comments on: IPG Keeping Authors in the Dark About Sales Figures? http://www.edrants.com/ipg-keeping-authors-in-the-dark-about-sales-figures/ a blog in ever-shifting standing Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark Suchomel http://www.edrants.com/ipg-keeping-authors-in-the-dark-about-sales-figures/comment-page-1/#comment-252479 Mark Suchomel Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:30:31 +0000 http://www.edrants.com/?p=10981#comment-252479 Hi Ed. We provide complete sales and inventory information to our publisher clients but we don't give it out to the public and have no good way of verifying that someone calling on the phone is the author of a particular book. Our agreements are with our publishers and we consider their sales, inventory, and other vital company information confidential. How they broadcast it and use it is up to them. We don't feel it is our role to give out what some of our publishers might consider proprietary information, much like you might not want your medical records made public by your doctor. This is not being hostile. Our publishers have access to up-to-the-minute inventory figures and can provide this to whomever they choose. This has been our policy for the last 20 years. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions. Hi Ed. We provide complete sales and inventory information to our publisher clients but we don’t give it out to the public and have no good way of verifying that someone calling on the phone is the author of a particular book. Our agreements are with our publishers and we consider their sales, inventory, and other vital company information confidential. How they broadcast it and use it is up to them. We don’t feel it is our role to give out what some of our publishers might consider proprietary information, much like you might not want your medical records made public by your doctor. This is not being hostile. Our publishers have access to up-to-the-minute inventory figures and can provide this to whomever they choose. This has been our policy for the last 20 years. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions.

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