Author: Mary Beth House (---.chartertn.net)
Date: 10-01-02 15:43
I am new to this board and am deeply troubled by the way one of the members verbally assaulted John Harnish.
>"Your definition of a vanity press is not valid (by objective publishing industry definitions, Infinity is a vanity press using POD technology), and your employment by a POD (and especially your failure to reveal this up front) makes any comment you have on POD publishing subjective and suspect."
Mr. Kessler called Mr. Harnish a ringer because he worked for Infinity Publishing. Are we to gather from this statement that a person can not have an objective opinion if they work for one POD publisher or another? I have read several of the posts made by Mr. Harnish and he doesn't hide the fact that he is an employee for Infinity Publishing, nor does he push one POD publisher over another. What he did do, however, was respond to the question at hand in the most generic of terms about the POD industry as a whole, pulling from his years of experience in the business.
Mr. Kessler also made a point of saying that Mr. Harnish published his books through Infinity, as though that were a terrible thing.
It was clear to me that Mr. Kessler had no interest in reading or understanding what Mr. Harnish wrote, but rather that he had an agenda to promote and used Mr. Harnish's affiliation with a POD publisher as a springboard to launch into a tirade against Infinity Publishing and Mr. Harnish specifically.
>"Thought I should pin down what I meant by "objective publishing industry definitions" of the types of publishers, since John H. seems bent on skewing these definitions to serve the POD publisher he works (and, apparently, drums up business) for."
The only one drumming up business for anything is Mr. Kessler, for John Harnish's book, "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About POD But Didn't Know Who To Ask," since it's clear he doesn't have a clue as to what the Print-On-Demand industry is all about.
One wonders if his reaction to Mr. Harnish or Infinity Publishing is personal in nature since Mr. Kessler himself is, by the information posted on his own site, a freelance book editor and novelist.
And lest I be called a ringer as well, allow me to point out that I am not an Infinity Publishing employee and I've never met John Harnish.
Mary Beth
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