Pat Holt has restarted her online column Holt Uncensored. The first of three things she would like to see is live, online royalty accounting for authors: “If you were an author, wouldn’t it be great if your publisher gave you a password to your own royalty account? This would be an online, frequently updated, always accessible, entirely confidential page on your publisher’s website that would replace the current system. As frequently as you wish, you could check sales of your book, the rate of returns, the percentage taken out for reserves and varying royalty rates for bulk sales, special sales, […]