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But one of my publishers - a boutique press that published my collection *Overclocked* - collapsed along with most of its competitors, the same week my book was published (its distributor, #PublishersGroupWest, went bankrupt after its parent company, #AdvancedMarketingServices, imploded in a shower of fraud and criminality).

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

The publisher merged with several others, and then several more, and then several more - until it ended up a division of the #BigFive publisher #Hachette, who repeatedly, "accidentally" pushed my book into retail channels with DRM. I don't think Hachette deliberately set out to screw me over, but the fact that Hachette is (by far) the most doctrinaire proponent of DRM meant that when the chaos of its agglomerated state resulted in my being cheated, it was a happy accident.

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Cory Doctorow 2y ago

(The Hachette story has a happy ending; I took the book back from them and sold it to #Blackstone, who brought out a new expanded edition to accompany a DRM-free audiobook and ebook):

https://www.blackstonepublishing.com/overclocked-bvej.html

Willingham, too, has been affected by the curse of bigness.

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