> Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:35:35 +0000
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> Subject: Re: Beware of Book on Demand (Human Touch Publishing)
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> Another problem with this, is that the quality of the book and typesetting (if that is still a usable term) are poor. The texts are usually badly scanned or copied and pasted, and any formatting lost.
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> Selling other people's ebooks online without their consent and without paying them is unfortunely a growing criminal practice.
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> On 10 Dec 2011, at 19:10, Tony Frazer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Tell amazon as well, Jeff. They're an inadvertent party to a breach of copyright, and it might encourage them not to do business with HTP.
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> On 10 Dec 2011, at 18:04, Jeffrey Side wrote:
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> 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:
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> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0068P9DUY/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=
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> They also are selling it at another site, here:
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> http://www.alibris.co.uk/stores/human_touch_publishing/search?mtype&searchtype=author&searchquery=Jeffrey+Side
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> 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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