Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/25

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Subject: [Leica] Hove
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Tue Sep 25 17:27:47 2007
References: <002101c7fe52$ba3b99b0$6401a8c0@asus930> <C31CB007.6C0F7%mark@rabinergroup.com> <002601c7fe63$1edb3b90$6401a8c0@asus930> <200709240538.l8O5ccFd058002@server1.waverley.reid.org> <46F8D7E7.5080800@summaventures.com>

At 05:41 AM 9/25/2007, Peter Dzwig wrote:
 >Marc,
 >
 >according to Hove's website Hove have been **bought out** by "Steyning 
 >Photo
 >Books LLP" (Steyning is a small town/large village not a million miles from
 >Hove!) who claim to have been selling books by mail order.


I really did not want to get us off into a 
discussion of this.  Let it just remain that most 
of the Hove authors are quite unhappy about the 
shielding of the company from its 
responsibilities.  Yes, we were advised of the 
bankruptcy.  The British Courts "recognized" us 
as creditors and then blew us away, and simply 
signed over our rights to the successor company without comment.

This is clearly illegal but we are in a jam, as 
the new company is continuing to distribute our 
books without paying royalties either for the 
period before the bankruptcy or for the period 
after the bankruptcy.  One of our number made a 
settlement and another has opted out, but the 
rest of us are rather left in the lurch.

Let's get back to discussing M8 batteries.  There 
is more nutrition in an M8 battery than in a Hove 
book, after all:  Mark Rabiner sprinkles M8 
batteries onto his pancakes, and who knows better 
than Mark "Crepe Electronique" Rabiner?

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
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