Over the weekend, a business called open book press (link no longer available) sent out a press release trying to profit from the misfortune of Speakeasy. right here are excerpts, total with snarky commentary from yours truly.
Open book press uses a Ray of hope to Speakeasy Creators
Wow, exactly how magnanimous of them. seems a bit like a charity service, like a suicide prevention hotline or something.
North American book as well as graphic book publisher, as well as soon to be comic publisher open book Press, is issuing a public statement that it is ready to go over as well as evaluation materials from creators who are now left without a publisher because of the closure of Speakeasy Comics on February 27th 2006.
Then again, perhaps not. They don’t publish comics, however they’re ready to speak to people with prepared projects, only they don’t pledge anything. What are they truly providing?
Open book press had only just just recently altered its guidelines to specify that submissions would only be accepted or solicited at public appearance events where an editor was in attendance. now the business is making an exception for any individual who had a comic series being published or slated to be published by Speakeasy.
“Let me make this remove so there are no misunderstandings. We are not stating that we will open the flood gates as well as passively envelope the entire Speakeasy stable. What we are stating is that we are ready to make an exception in our submission guidelines in buy to assist out the creators who are now stuck in the lurch. I can assurance that we will not be accepting any type of as well as all Speakeasy Comics submitted to us. We’re not seeking to spread ourselves thin with as well lots of titles, what we do want to do is assist out those creators as well as add to our new comics steady by choosing a choose handful of books that we feel have the most potential.” added Gagnon.
Ah, they’re using only the capability to mail submissions, making it remove that they want to cherry-pick cancelled Speakeasy titles. Wouldn’t the professional, business-like thing to do be to get in touch with the creators they’re thinking about directly instead of throwing open some odd type of email cattle call?
And considering that when does an statement of this level of disinterest validate a press release? It looks to me like open book wishes to dance on one more business corpse just to get their name out there.
(Note that I’m ignoring the different typos as well as punctuation errors discovered throughout this document. They’re one more sign of the level of professionalism on display, however I figure the people that understand that have already noted the errors.)
In autumn 2004 open book press obtained SMASH! Comics, one more comic book publisher based out of Toronto, that was experiencing difficulty. now the line has been revamped as well as set to re-launch in may 2006, with buzz stating this new SMASH! Comics line will revolutionize the industry. open book press has likewise approached the owners of Speakeasy Comics to reveal rate of interest in a similar offer where open book would get the left over assets of Speakeasy. So far open book press has only expressed rate of interest to the owners of Speakeasy who have not made any type of public action or arranged any type of discussions.
Ah, now I acknowledge the name. I tried to evaluation a SMASH! comic once. Amateur work, shoddy printing… That doesn’t provide me confidence in the new company, particularly provided their like of meaningless hype like “will revolutionize the industry”. I likewise don’t depend on any type of business that tries to conduct negotiations in public, just like this meant “offer”. I wouldn’t blame Speakeasy for ignoring these clowns.
More details can be discovered at: www.openbookpress.com
Actually, no, they can’t. This press release, at the time of writing, wasn’t published there. The last update at their site appears to have been two months ago.
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