Comments on: Marston Book Services and e4books: Making a Mockery of Industry Standards

By: Tony Batchelor

Tony Batchelor — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:39:07 +0000

I have written two RE books and I would like them to be advertised/promoted.
Can you help?

By: Phil Groom

Phil Groom — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:28:53 +0000

Good news at last - from batch via twitter, 14/5/2010:

Batch welcomes a new distributor: it's Marston Book Services and they will go live from June 1st. Nice to have you on board guys!

By: John Duncan

John Duncan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:33:38 +0000

Let’s hope they don’t get pout in with the backorders…

By: Phil Groom

Phil Groom — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:42:26 +0000

Sorry to confuse you, John: Demmiks Klim, Special Agent for OCSET (Organisation for the Care and Safety of Extra Terrestrials), demanded the aliens’ release so I had to cut them loose. I gather he’s rehabilitating them in a warehouse in Carlisle…

By: John Duncan

John Duncan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:16:21 +0000

Now I am even more confused. The UFO comment that I made the above comment about has disappeared!

By: John Duncan

John Duncan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:55:19 +0000

Oh no! All my conspiracy theories were about STL! Don’t tell me it was Marston all the time…..

By: Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:00:54 +0000

Phil,

I do agree that sign up to Batch probably should be a mandatory part of e4 accreditation – I wouldn’t pass such accreditation as Marston and a couple of others not being on Batch is one of the things that has caused me to not sign up to it as yet.

Though to be fair most of my ordering and problem reporting etc is done online through suppliers own sites, pub easy or email.
As to payment of invoices etc well all but the very smallest of the small are paid by BACS – and the small are only not paid for by BACS as they don’t want to be!

So I guess it is possible to be e4 based without being fully onboard – however to be fair I would prefer it if they did sign up as it would make life easier as I would then sign up too! )

By: Twitted by notbovvered

Twitted by notbovvered — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:15:48 +0000

[...] This post was Twitted by notbovvered [...]