Business ProfileforAuthor Solutions, LLC

I published my book in 2010 which is still selling 14 years later.I am based in ******* and can attest to the fact that iUniverse does not look after the interests of international-based authors. It refuses to pay royalties directly to my bank account even though ******************** now makes it mandatory for all its US based authors to provide bank details to enable the electronic transfer of royalties.Instead, they insist on posting cheques. This is inconvenient because it means that I have to pay a foreign cheque transaction fee. Additionally, the cheque takes a much longer period to clear than would one of local origin. I have not cashed in any cheques since 2017.I decided that short of iUniverse doing the right thing by transferring the money to my bank account, I would allow my royalties to accumulate to what I consider an acceptable amount before putting the foreign cheque into my account. I was informed by iUniverse that they had a procedure which they call a re-cut. This is supposed to consolidate a series of royalty payments into one. I did not receive a payment for the first re-cut. I requested a second re-cut in 2022 and removed the hold at some point in 2023. This meant that I was expecting payment for all my royalties accumulated since 2017 during the first week of December 2023.But there is a catch iUniverse spring on you after the author removes the hold. They claim under a rule of theirs that payment of the sum owed to the author is not guaranteed. In other words it permits them to withhold payment even when the window for payment arrives.The implications are clear: It means that they can keep on deferring paying the author the debt owed him indefinitely. This is an intolerable state of affairs.I have since cancelled my contract with iUniverse,My assessment of the aforementioned is that iUniverse have employed the use of unreasonable terms and procedures which breach my legitimate expectation to acquire royalties due me.

iUniverse pays royalties to foreign authors via mailed check. We have no control over the time it takes to reach the author, the fees assessed by foreign banks, or the time it takes to clear the bank. Royalties are only paid in the scheduled four quarterly payouts each year. They are not paid outside those times. The reviewers royalties will be paid via mailed check, as he has been told many times. He has received the recut royalties issued in May 2018. That check cleared our bank. The remaining outstanding royalties are an open balance to be paid to him via mailed check in the second quarter 2024 payout, which occurs at the beginning of September. This will include royalties earned in the second quarter of 2024, when he cancelled his project