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Posts Tagged ‘Publishers-Behaving-Badly’

Heeding the Warning Signals in ePublishing

By Jane • Jun 29th, 2008 • Category: Ebooks, Letters of Opinion, Misc

In light of the recent occurrences at NCP in which the publisher took a partial from an author and inserted it into an anthology without her permission and allowed others to finish the story for her, again without her permission, I wondered what impact that had on readers.
Whenever I hear of a publishing fiasco, I [...]



Publisher Alert: New Concepts Publishing Releasing Unauthorized Material

By Jane • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Ebooks, Publishing News

Sydney Somers, a former NCP author, released an alert regarding a New Concepts Publishing release. Somers wrote three chapters of a full length novel that was never released but was contracted by NCP last summer. Today, the three chapters has been converted into a novella and inserted into an anthology with two other [...]



Update on Iris Print: Now with Bounced Royalty Checks

By Jane • Jun 12th, 2008 • Category: Misc

We blogged a couple of weeks ago about Iris Print and the speculations that it was closing its doors. One of the more prominent authors, Rebecca Day, had encouraged people to still buy her book Thaw that was published by Iris.
Tina, I wouldn’t say things are resolved - just that I’m reasonably confident that I’m [...]



Yaoi/Manga Publishing Issues: Iris Print and Tokyo Pop

By Jane • May 30th, 2008 • Category: Manga, Misc

I received two publisher alerts and want to share them with the community. One relates to a Yaoi publisher closing shop and the second is Tokyo Pop’s Manga Pilot draconian contract.
Iris Print:
Iris Print is a Yaoi publisher who apparently closed up shop and failed to tell its authors. Giapet.Net first reported this on May [...]



Indiana Attorney General Sues Non Paying Publisher

By Jane • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News

In an act that will endear authors to Indiana in spite of its recent “sex registry for booksellers” law, the Indiana Attorney General is suing publisher, Airleaf aka Bookman Marketing, for accepting payment of authors and not delivering the promised services from publication to promotional services. The owner is Carl Lau and it looks [...]



Publishing House Alert: Yaoi House LLC

By Jane • May 11th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Kira Takenouchi is a Yaoi author who made a name for herself with Ai no Kusabi fanfiction, including a long and popular saga called ‘Taming Riki’. She formed a publishing house called Yaoi House or Yaoi Underground, LLC.
She signed a number of authors including Becca Abbott and took money in form of subscription fee payments [...]



Would Be Print Authors Scammed by Vanity Press

By Jane • Sep 10th, 2007 • Category: Publishing News

San Diego publisher, Ed Johnson, promised non published authors that he could make their dreams of being in print, a reality. For $5,700.00 an author could send their book to be printed through Johnson’s press. The books, however, never materialized. Emails went unanswered and phone calls unreturned. The website is no [...]