Penguin Pulled into ASI Controversy

What a smart ploy by the lawyer community to wait until Author Solutions, Inc (ASI) became part of Penguin before filing this suit. Or maybe it's just circumstance and not calculated timing. ASI was bought by Pearson PLC (the company that owns Penguin) in July 2012. A previous GITP post had noted that ASI was under investigation.  And now--Class Action Law Suit. 

Part of the suit states that

"Author Solutions also fails to take diligent care of its authors' works, making numerous and egregious publisher errors - errors made by the publisher, not the author. These errors include errors on book covers, in addition to various typographical and formatting errors. In fact, Author Solutions profits from its own mistakes. Aggressive sales techniques ensure that these errors are corrected only for a fee of several hundred dollars. Even though, as a matter of policy, Author Solutions promises to correct publisher errors for free, it rarely does...."

It will be interesting to see this play out.

New E-books

 

These are two covers of new e-books that have recently gone live. GITP created the covers for each, and also formatted the e-book layouts for Nook and Kindle.

I'm happy to welcome indie author Joe Pfeiler to the GITP family. Also the acclaimed author, Patricia Nell Warren and her company, Wild Cat Press International. Read a recent interview with Warren here. Visit their websites to learn more about them and their interesting titles.

The COVER page of this blog shows many of the other books GITP has had a hand in producing.

Catalog from GITP

Here's a free booklet that highlights some of the books Get It Together Productions (GITP) has worked on. Along with featured titles, the booklet contains a list of all the authors who have employed GITP through Summer 2012. A list of links for readers and writers is also included.
Another booklet/catalog will be issued in the Autumn, with more featured titles as well as writing tips.

A similar booklet is available free for Kindle Primers.

Enjoy!

Red Adept Review Site Closed

In Mid March, the popular online site Red Adept Reviews, ceased publication. A true loss to the Indie Author. If any of your titles had been reviewed at RAR, and you didn’t grab the actual text you can still do that for a few more weeks. Just type your name, or the title in the search box. Be certain to list all the information with the review (date, reviewer, etc.) so you can use it later. Any ideas who will fill this void?