I suppose this is just the way things operate online. There are no rules I suppose. One just has to take the good with the bad.
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The same thing happened to me with an essay I wrote for the Barnes Society.
Alec.
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Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:08:49 +0000
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Beware of Book on Demand (Human Touch Publishing)
To: [log in to unmask]
Yeah, there's things like that actually have some of my .pdf's on sale. I can't imagine that anyone buys them. I suppose one could have a conspicuous insert in an e-book saying this is available free from Buggins the Author and you, Dear Reader, have been conned if you've paid for it?
On 10 December 2011 18:04, Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Just to let you know that there is a publishing company called Book on Demand (Human Touch Publishing) who have an Amazon store and who, without my permission, are selling a print-on-demand version of my ebook "Carrier of the Seed". I’ve asked them to remove it or else I will seek legal advice. Here is the link to the sales page:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068P9DUY/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
They also are selling it at another site, here:
http://www.alibris.co.uk/stores/human_touch_publishing/search?mtype&searchtype=author&searchquery=Jeffrey+Side
I can’t find anything about this company. It looks like they poach already published books and ebooks and charging inflated prices for them, so watch out for them in case they try the same thing with any of your already published books.
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