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This
project will
bring into print the texts of rare books of the 16th, 17th,
18th & 19th Centuries. Some titles have already been
published.
Password protected
area for long term clients.
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John Helvin is
an artist, author,
editor, publisher and bookseller. Please browse this site for
more details.
Business
established 1st January 2006.
APRIL NEWS
The problem with copyright piracy continues. There are two good pieces
of news though. The first is that help is being obtained from the
publishing industry. Contrary to the assumptation that publishers can
do very little about their books being pirated, publisher associations
around the world have been working together to make small changes which
are making a big difference. Even small, specialised publishers
can now be helped by such associations regardless of
whether or not they are a member.
The other good piece of news, which has been bad news for those wanting
to download pirate digital copies of our Thomas Hill book, is that a
number of 'download providers', as they call themselves, have turned
out to be scams. Links have been appearing on the internet
promising the download and those foolish enough to pay the fee to
become a member of the 'download provider' have disocovered that there
is no digital copy and that they've just given their financial details
to con artists - along with all the other details needed for the
scamsters to commit ID theft.
It is possible to test if the 'download provider' is a scam. Use the
search facility on that website to search for made up nonsense such as
"asdfghjkl" and it will show you that "asdfghjkl" is available for
download and to get it, you must join by paying a fee. These
scamsters merely want people to input their name, address, credit card
details, Paypal password, etc.
FEBRUARY NEWS
Well,
February brought several new attempts at copyright piracy; this time it
was not just pirate paperback copies of our Thomas Hill book but also a
digital scan being made available on the internet. We would like to
thank Amazon and Tumblr for their very swift co-operation.
In light of the amount of times John Helvin's publications have been
pirated, based upon legal advice, it has been decided to not merely be
content with pirate copies been withdrawn from circulation. Full
prosecutions, civil and criminal, will be followed through to the end
and compensation sought.
More news on this is to follow.
JANUARY NEWS
2011 was a fiesty year in terms of
technical problems, our action against copyright piracy, problems with our
mail handlers and a whole bunch of other things that made progress slow
on the publishing side of things. It appears, fingers crossed, all of
that has come to an end and it will finally be possible to catch up on
many projects. The next twelve months will see a number of changes to
this website; they will happen little by little; some changes will be
small, others will be big.
NOVEMBER NEWS
The Ebay scam has been dealt with,
slowly, but finally dealt with; the seller concerned not only had
to change his listings on Ebay's say-so but was also blasted with a
mass of negative feedback from customers who never received the books
they paid for.
We have two new books to announce. One about Charles Dickens and one
about Jospeh Merrick, the elephant man. The Dickens book has been ready
for some time but its release date is timed for the Dickens bicentenary
next year.
28th July 2011:
BEWARE OF A NEW
SCAM ON EBAY
There
is a new drop shipping scam on Ebay where Ebay sellers are taking
orders for 'new' books at prices much higher than the retail price
and then ordering copies from Amazon at the correct retail price. This
has happened to one of our books (A Briefe and Pleasaunt
Treatise, Entituled, Naturall And Artificiall Conclusions
by Thomas Hill). The correct retail price is £10 but the price charged
by these scamsters is nearly twice the price. Both Ebay and Amazon are being
consulted about this scam. Amazon may not be able to do much because no
rule is being broken on their site but Ebay is a different matter. It
is against their rules to write misleading listings - which includes
the retail price. The matter is ongoing.
21st
July 2011:
DELAY CAUSED BY
TECH PROBLEMS
The
computer drive which housed all our files and software keys failed
recently. We are waiting on the data to be securely retrieved and for
any corrupted files to be repaired. Although we have back up files to
work with, they do not contain the most recent ones - which are the
most relevant to our needs. Therefore, there will be a delay in certain
projects until this is dealt with. In regards to private projects, the
respective clients have been notified and have said they have no
complaint regards the delay. As for public projects, we can only ask
that you please be patient.
FORTHCOMING TITLES
The Parlour Magic
of Charles Dickens by John Helvin.
The Secrets of the
Cups and Balls by Robert Houdin. A bi-lingual edition with the
original French text and a new English translation.
The Gibeciere
by Gilles-Edme Guyot. A
bi-lingual edition with the original French text and a new English
translation.
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