Re: Re: Corporate piracy?

>
> Brenna, I was careful. I stopped the Jolie Howard titles sales at FW well
> prior to signing BN contracts.
> They're still listed as not for sale at FW, I checked to be sure.
>

So did the other publishers involved. Unfortunately, no matter what they
marked at FW or at Mobi, the companies moved the books to the new connected
venues and turned them on there. forcing publishers to go in and turn them
off again...several times, because every time a new wave would come onto the
new site, ALL older titles would reset to on, even if they'd been reset
once. Publishers had to explain this to authors and send royalties to
authors that hadn't been with the publisher in question for years. If it
didn't happen to you, you are VERY lucky.


>
> I never offered the JH titles to or through BN or Lightning Source or any
> outfit other than FW, yet a search on one the ISBNS I used for the JH titles
> has turned them up at a wide range of supposedly-legit resellers.
>

Well, B&N would get them from a FW transfer, even if it was turned off,
unless you mean you didn't have any of your titles transferred to B&N at
all. That was one of the problems.

FW does have (warning here) a large distribution channel it feeds, just as
LSI does. Now, sometimes those books show on the trickle down distribution
as available, but when someone tries to purchase the book, because it's not
on sale at FW, the transaction cannot be completed. I had this problem when
I left eXtasy Books. The books SHOWED as available all over the web but
actually weren't.

If you find they are available to complete the transaction, it's time to
kick some backside and take names.  Any sale site can tell you where they
get a particular book...what distribution brought it in. Ask. If they say
FW, you can take it up with the sale site (initially) and then with FW.


> I think there may be a corporate gray (deliberate but deniable errors that
> make money) market in ebooks and I encourage all publishers to investigate
> this concept.
>

Absolutely. I'm certain the "errors" of moving books to B&N or Kindle were
purposeful. I'm sure, by the second time it happened, it was enough of a
headache that they would have halted it and fixed it if they didn't want it
to happen. Or at least warned publishers it was an issue. The fact that they
didn't smacks of corporate greed.


>
> The question to ask is: "Who is selling your titles and where are they
> getting them?"
> Is this something EPIC would want to look into?
>

EPIC doesn't have the manpower. They'll tell you how to keep track, but they
don't have the manpower and money to do the leg-work for anyone.

Brenna
-- 
http://www.brennalyons.com    http://www.facebook.com/brenna.lyons
"Though it went against his base nature, Davon -- son of Ares, Horseman of
War, and holder of the red sword -- had to make peace. What an odd turn his
life had taken." ALL'S FAIR...on presale at Silver Publishing
http://silverpublishing.info/product_book_info/coming-soon-c-2/all-s-fair-p-178


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