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Wednesday 17 December 2003
caveat scriptor
Bruce Lawson, a former editor at glasshaus (imprint of Wrox Press) has dug up some dirt on a new publishing company that anyone writing computer books (or buying them for that matter) needs to know about.
Apparently, the managing director who closed the door on Wrox and dumped its employees without so much as their last due wages, declared bankruptcy and stopped paying author royalties and monies due for various work has opened a new publishing house. It’s even in one of the former Wrox buildings in Birmingham, U.K.
The new company is called Packt Publishing and was registered only two months after the bankruptcy of Wrox.
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December 17th, 2003 at 4:24 am
Yup, and it has been done in the US in various industries as well. Despicable.
December 17th, 2003 at 11:43 am
Thats interesting to know as I’ve got a number of Wrox press books and I liked the way that the authors would browse the Wrox forums and answer questions and queries themselves.
December 17th, 2003 at 12:12 pm
somehow I doubt many ex-wrox authors will be joining them after the way he folded the company without paying us, and then set up again. UK friends tell me it’s totally legal, though.
December 19th, 2003 at 10:50 am
Really quite deplorable after all our suffering. My (sob)story: here.
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somehow I doubt many ex-wrox authors will be joining them after the way he folded the company without paying us, and then set up again. UK friends tell me it’s totally legal, though
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