The sad and depressing fact about book sales is that even if they are high, authors don't always get their royalties. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler earned four-hundred and twenty-five pounds (about fifty thousand dollars in today's money) from the sales of his "Mein Kampf" in Australia. Despite all his entreaties, the government would not allow the publishers to forward him this sum despite an iron-clad contract. A correct note was reportedly sent off to Berlin: "Sorry, Sir, your earnings have been donated to the Red Cross and the Order of St John. You will just have to claim these sums once the hostilities are over." Hitler's reply has not been recorded.
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