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The Dorchester Piracy Continues! Join the Boycott!

March 24th, 2011 · No Comments · boycott

I wrote a post about Dorchester about 4 months ago, where I was joining in the protest over their ongoing piracy. Well, they’re still at it. Brian Keene, an author who used to work with Dorchester, is reporting over on his blog that Dorchester are currently pirating his novels. His contract with Dorchester ended with [...]

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Dorchester Press are committing PIRACY

October 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · publishing news

Dorchester are a small to medium size publisher who have been having financial difficulties for the past year (or so). As part of a move to stave off bankruptcy, in the past couple months they’ve reduced staff, announced plans to go digital only, and they’ve dropped a number of authors. There’s a problem with that [...]

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Authors flee as Dorchester inch close to bankruptcy

August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news

I came across the blog of a former Dorchester author yesterday (via SBTB).  His inside view of the impending disaster is very different from the story Dorchester are giving the press. Frankly, the words “circling the drain” come to mind. Last week he posted about why he was leaving Leisure (a Dorchester imprint): Which is [...]

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