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A publisher, in Chennai. Tamil Nadu, has published my books without my permission or knowledge and has not paid me anything I would like to force him to pay me a reasonable compensation. I had made corrections, editing and proof-reading in the above files on the computer in his office on quite a few occasions. I am taking care of my aged mother and sick younger brother in Bangalore and the publisher is located in Chennai, so I will not be able to visit Chennai more than twice or thrice in this case. I would prefer to have a single hearing and judgement delivered in the first hearing itself. The publisher has published my books on amazon.in without my permission and knowledge in 2014 and has not paid me a single penny till now. I discovered it recently in 2019 and found that the books in question carry my name and my father's photo inside in the dedication. I want to force the publisher to pay me a reasonable compensation. I have not signed any contract or any other agreement with the publisher till now. i HAVE NOT REGISTERED OR COPYRIGHTED THE BOOK TILL NOW. I had translated three books from Sanskrit into English and Tamil and had given the digital files to a publisher in Chennai in March 2019. i as introduced to the publisher by my paternal aunt, who had done some translation of a book from Tamil into English for the publisher and has also not been paid by him till now. The publisher cheated her by giving her only 132 unsold copies of the book, while he pocketed the entire sales proceeds, as my aunt was taking care of her husband, who was in the last stages of his life, suffering from kidney failure and was in no mood to bargain for payment with the publisher, whom she expected to be fair and honest.. In my case, the same publisher has printed 1000 copies of each of the books in April 2014 and sold on Amazon.(one book priced at Rs 50 and the other two by the same author combined as one at Rs 40. (The publisher must have earned an income of at least Rs 72,000 from the sales of my books, minus his printing expenses). Amazon.in executives are not willing to give me the number of copies sold for each of the books on their website) in after lying repeatedly over 20 phone calls made between April to December 2014 that he had no plans to publish the books, as the demand for the books was very low in his view. Now, after I had found out this in April 2019 through google search, he has rejected my demand for Rs 15000 as compensation. He has put my name on the cover and my late father's photograph in the dedication page of each of the books. My name appears on the inside page of the books followed by the publishing company's logo. I have the copies of the books and the March 2014 proof copies of the books with my name and logo of the publisher on the proof copies. Despite frequent emails to customer support at amazon.in, informing them about all the facts with the attached snapshots of the proof copies of the cover pages of my books containing my name followed by the publisher's logo on the front inside page, and so-called assurances that my problems would be resolved, the executives at amazon.in have not done anything tangible till now. I have also cursed them to suffer all the cancers, which the world has ever known and will ever know in the future, because I have not received any payment till now, while they collect their ill-gotten commissions from the publisher for the copies sold on their website. I have repeatedly urged the amazo