One more diversion from our travel theme. Just wanted to spread the word after fielding many questions, since this bit of news isn't found anywhere except for the Feedbrewer Blog & Bookbrewer's Twitter site: Bookbrewer and Feedbrewer, who manage and run "Borders Get Published," are not part of Borders and are not going out of business. Similar to how Kobo Books is separate from Borders. That means that my book, "Sri Lankan Drumming: the Thammattama" and the other titles published by them, WILL still be available with uninterrupted service.
The official word from Bookbrewer on this:
"The recent news of Borders' planned liquidation has understandably created some questions for authors who have used our co-branded Borders Get Published Powered by BookBrewer service over the past 8 months.
We want to take the opportunity to reassure you that your books and customer data are safe and will not be affected by Borders' liquidation.
Borders Get Published is run by FeedBrewer, Inc., which has a marketing partnership with Borders. FeedBrewer operates the service at borders.bookbrewer.com, maintains the servers and customer data, distributes authors' eBooks to all major retailers (including Borders.com, but also Kobo, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple and Google), receives royalty payments from retailers and pays 95% of received royalties out to authors.
Author agreements are with FeedBrewer, and we have all necessary legal rights to continue to serve customers of the service even after Borders has liquidated, whether or not the Borders.com Web site continues to operate under new owners in the future.
We also run BookBrewer.com, a completely separate service which will also not be affected by Borders' liquidation. Likewise, our integrated print on demand service which is operated in conjunction with Consolidated Graphics will continue operating without disruption.
FeedBrewer will honor all commitments to and agreements with its current and future customers, including:
Operating publishing services. Authors can continue to use the service to edit and publish eBooks and Print on Demand titles.
Distributing eBooks to retailers, collecting royalties and paying those out to authors on a quarterly basis.
Fulfilling Print on Demand orders with our print partner, Consolidated Graphics. We plan to continue to operate the Borders Get Published service at its current location for the time being.
There will naturally be some changes in the future as Borders' liquidation process proceeds and its company winds down, but we will strive to ensure that any such changes for Borders Get Published customers are as seamless as possible. We also look forward to helping authors with even more self-publishing, marketing and distribution services in the future.
Finally, we want to assure authors who published eBooks to Borders.com through Kobo that their books will still be available through the Kobobooks.com Web site and the Kobo Reader.
We want to thank you for your patronage over these past months, and we look forward to continuing to work with you for many years to come.
Dan Pacheco
Founder & CEO, FeedBrewer, Inc."
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