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Apr 27 2008

Update #2 on pirated book: A small victory for our side

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Very smart graphic courtesy of another victim, illustrator Princesse CamCam. Share it! Add more translations!
A little over a week ago, Darren at the Little Chimp Society blogged about this book, revealing how it had pirated all its contents from his site, along with hundreds of images by 93 different illustrators.

We then promptly started blogging about this, encouraging others to do the same, and flooded social networks with calls of "Don't Buy This Book!" And guess what?

Our "shame campaign" has yielded more results: Index Books has agreed to stop selling it and has sent the remaining copies back to the distributor. Check out the update on Darren's blog.

This is all due to YOUR help! Hundreds, maybe thousands of you, spreading the news around the net and around the globe, and cramming comments onto tagged blogs that talked about it. We can't thank you enough for helping out! :)

It gets better. Index Books has also revealed who their supplier for this book was:

Sophia
Guangzhou Sendpoints Books Co., Ltd.
Add: #80 Xin Ya Rd., Haizhu District, Guangzhou, China
Tel: 86 20 89095121
Fax: 86 20 89095206
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
MSN: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Website: http://www.sendpoint.com.cn (strangely, it won't display in Safari at all)
-- Also --
Name: Lin Gengli
Mobile: 86-139 2519 7703
Skype: sendpoint
(When re-posting this information, please don't create hyperlinks to their site)


Just send them a polite e-mail at both addresses above, briefly explaining what you know about the book. They may very well have no idea about the truth behind this book, so be nice! You may not get a response, but you can bet they're getting your email.

Thanks again, and keep up the great work!

 

5 Comments

Picture of Miguel Miguel
2 years, 3 months ago

amazing news! let’s keep it up!
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Picture of Phill Evans Phill Evans
2 years, 3 months ago

I read the LCS blog today and tried to see if/where I could buy a copy online (I had an idea I might email suppliers to lobby them not to…)  I couldn’t find a single one!  Just page after page of outrage.  Wonderful!  :)

Phill

Picture of Ben Ben
2 years, 3 months ago

sent out a couple of tactful emails letting them know the books were made from pirated images (seems almost impossible they didn’t know where the images came from)
anyway.

Picture of Holly DeWolf Holly DeWolf
2 years, 2 months ago

Good to know the “campaign” is working. Small victories are good. Keep us updated. Cheers!

Picture of Princesse camcam Princesse camcam
2 years, 2 months ago

Bonjour cher camarade de galère! une petite consolation: quand je vois la vitesse à laquelle les bloggueurs ont passé l’info, je me dit qu’il y a de l’espoir. à bientôt!

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