Bulletin: Cacoethes

I see that the Cacoethes Publishing website has vanished. Is it a glitch.... or is it the end?

Stuff

Cacoethes Blow Out Sale
Cacoethes Publishing is having a massive sale: all ebooks $2 and paperbacks either $5 or $10. Generosity or desperation?

JA Konrath shares Kindle sales levels
J A Konrath recently blogged, with unusual candor, about how Kindle sales (via publisher and self-published) stack up. I would suggest reaing the whole post as it makes a number of very good points. One of them being: "If I had the rights to all six of my Hyperion books, and sold them on Kindle for $1.99, I'd be making $20,580 per year off of them, total, rather than $4818 a year off of them, total ... According to my math, I'd be making more money if my books were out of print, and I had my rights back."

Cacoethes, downward spiral.

Cacoethes Publishing House is pretty much a mess these days, the website is still experiencing "technical difficulties" months after re-opening, communication with authors is poor or non-existent, and now there are reports that customers are not receiving their purchases. However their Better Business Bureau report is still hovering at C- rather than F, due to there only being one author and one customer complaint, both considered resolved. So if you have had problems with Cacoethes, please do you due diligence and lodge a simple online complaint.

Cacoethes Publishing website bulletin--veinglory

Cacoethes' website is down with the message: "This Account Has Been Suspended -- Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible." Authors have apparently been informed that a new and improved site will be up tomorrow, but the lack of prior notice and suspension message is not a good look....

Some strange goings on at Cacoethes Publishing--veinglory

A press release states in part:

"Ms. Denise Mosley has officially disclosed the names of the authors whose contracts are being terminated by Cacoethes Publishing House"

"...parties who participated in those vicious, libelous chats will be dealt
with via our legal representatives"

Which sure looks like smoke to me.

See also: Victoria Strauss -- Cacoethes Publishing to Some of its Authors: See Ya!

Bulletin: Cacoethes, smoke?

The Cacoethes Publishing guestbook makes for some interesting reading (newest posts are first, I suggest reading from the last page back to the first).

Bulletin: Cacoethes

This cannot by any means be considered hard information, but the latter part of the Cacoethes thread at Absolute Write suggests that there are some concerns about how much longer this press will be with us.

Cacoethes fees?

There is a report at Absolute Write that Cacoethes Publishing charges fees, specifically: "Be careful of the NET sales. I got hit with paypal fees, set up fees and marketing fees." Can anyone confirm (by email or PM at the forum where my username is 'veinglory'.)

Changes at Cacoethes

"What are Cacoethes Publishing House’s contract terms? Please note that a full contract will be supplied for review upon acceptance of a story. However, royalties are 40% for digital releases and 35% for print books. The length of grant of publishing rights is the full term of your given contract. This includes digital, print, audio, translation, and secondary/subsidiary rights. Royalty payments are quarterly."

So, from wanting more rights than they could possibly use for the length of the copy right to wanting them for no specified standard term. Because, um, that's obviously more kosher.

File under yet another e-publisher with a unpronounceable Celtic name.... ;)

Cacoethes Publishing

Please note: "The length of grant of publishing rights is the full term of copyright. This includes digital, print, audio, translation, and secondary/subsidiary rights."

This is non-standard. Long term of rights, asking for rights that it is not clear they can exploit--a grab. The suggestion that they can pay 35% royalties on print books strikes me as implausible.

That's just my take on it so far. if you know more, please share.