Raider Publishing International, New York.
Complaint 132909 Details

After having worked over it for three years, I sent the manuscript of my book to Raider International for publishing.I paid the required money, U.S.Dollars 998, including an additional sum of 400 U.S.Dollars, for getting it published within four months. The book, titled: The Tragedy of Kashmir, was finally published and released for sale on amazon.com in February 2011, after one year and seven months.I was neither informed about its release nor did I receive any author's copies. My repeated E-mails were either not replied or evoked a response weeks later. When I saw the book, I found it full of mistakes, including wrongly spelled title on top of every alternate page. After pointing this out, I was told that the mistakes would be corrected and the book re-printed. Nothing happened, I wrote a Ripoff Report against the Company, that has now been blocked. After I complained to Better Business Bureau, Mr. Adam Salviani, the company director wrote to me on November 10, 2011, "I propose that we issue your reprint before the end of the year and we can offer you both our 'Ebook publication' and 'Advertising' packages, which accounts for over a thousand dollars in extra promotion at no charge to you, once your book is re-released... I personally apologize for what has happened between yourself and the company." He, however, had the decency to return the four hundred Dollars that I had paid extra for fast publication. Nothing else has been done. My two letters to him were not replied.The company has informed me that 29 copies of my book have been sold from January 2011 to September 2011, I have not accepted the sum of 73 Dollars as my compensation. I know that over fifty copies were sold from one of the outlets in India. Incidentally, the book was on amazon best-selling list in General category for ten days sometime back.
The company has messed up my work and done nothing to rectify its mistakes.They should have the decency to refund the sum of 598 U.S.Dollars that I paid in June 2009 for publication of the book. Dr. Shiban K.Kachru