Jules Jones

It's not often I swear in public on the intarwebs, but Dorchester's behaviour deserves it. Don't buy books from Dorchester/Leisure, because you can be certain that most of the authors won't see a penny in royalties, and you can't be certain that Dorchester actually has any right to sell the books. Yes, that's right, Dorchester have apparently decided that the way to ease their financial woes is to sell pirated books.

This has been running for nigh on a year now. Dorchester was selling ebooks where the rights had reverted to the authors, and then claiming that oops, they'd tried to take the books down, it was those mean evil distribution companies like Amazon that kept putting them back up. That story really doesn't wash any more. Here's the latest installment of writer Brian Keene's battle to stop Dorchester's piracy of his books.

Do not submit work to this publisher. They used to be respectable, but alas that's in the past.