[box border =» full»] Don't miss the complete list of
complaints against Author Solutions and its imprints.
Since Bradley is involved in all five incidents, if his concern is about plagiarism, as opposed to exacting revenge on someone who had the temerity to criticize MBH, then he should be filing
complaints against the authors and editors of the Oxford Companion to Global Change (Larry Peterson, David Cuff, Goudie), the authors and editors of the Climate Change Study Guide and Enviropedia (Joe Buchdahl and others) and the coauthors of Luterbacher et al 2010: Jürg Luterbacher, Elena Xoplaki, Marcel Küttel, Eduardo Zorita, Jesus Fidel González - Rouco, Phil D. Jones, Marco Stössel, This Rutishauser, Heinz Wanner, Joanna Wibig, and Rajmund Przybylak.
Not exact matches
The
author Naomi Wolf accused Yale University officials of blocking her from filing a
complaint against the famed literary critic and English professor Harold Bloom, whom she accused in a 2004 magazine article of having groped her when she was a college senior and taking a course of independent study with him.
In the vanity press business, there are a few honorable exceptions to the belief that it's fraught with peril; for far too many
authors, though, the experience mirrors that of the
authors who filed more than 800
complaints against Tate Publishing and Music.
These allegations have come up in the past and they stem mostly from the fact that Amazon relies on
author honesty instead of vetting each uploaded ebook; the online book retailer also has only course of action
against stolen content, which is namely to wait for
complaints from consumers or
authors, then remove the ebook from its catalog.
If you want to read some
complaints about the poor (or absent) editorial and marketing services of
Author Solutions, look at the Class Action
Complaint filed
against them in New York.
However, on January 31, 2013, the Maryland law firm Z Law and the New York law firm Giskan Solotaroff Anderson & Stewart (the same firm that is currently investigating
Author Solutions Inc.) filed an amended
complaint (the original
complaint was filed last November)
against Willem Meiners, Larry Clopper, and PublishAmerica LLLC on behalf of Diana Waterman, Jennifer Grant, Danita Clemons, and the class of PA
authors in similar situations.
Is Vook more acceptable because it doesn't have as many
complaints against it as
Author Solutions?
While no
authors have ever lodged
complaints against the creators of BookTrakr, we recommend that you take whatever safety precautions possible when signing up for these kinds of services.
Although the CCCI can not assume responsibility for censorship of content on the internet, any member has the right to lodge a
complaint against another member, per the rules of our constitution and by - laws, in which case the CCCI may intervene, and may find it necessary to suspend or expel members who
author content with malicious intent, misrepresentation or defamation on ANY publicly available media (including but not limited to internet communications of any kind).