Sol Press Discussion Thread
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Well, those licenses are dead...
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@custodes said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
Anyone else find that the Sol Press website is down?
Was trying to see their monthly non-progress report.It's been down for at least three days; at least, that's how long I've been aware of the open tab in my 'Otaku focused' browser session having an 'ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED' message despite all efforts at refreshing cache, etc.
I was thinking that was a bad sign, myself.
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Their other site is still up for now at least: https://pantypress.com/
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@terabyte The domain registration is good through February, and the company that does their DNS (nfoservers.com) is up, but solpress.co does not resolve. So... probably someone put "paying for hosting" at a slightly lower priority than their translations.
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A post in their discord:
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Amazon has LightSail servers starting at $5 a month, maybe they can afford those?
/sarcasm
Perhaps their website is "preparing for QA" and will be back within 6 months?
/more sarcasm
I do hope they're not dead yet, since there's at least a chance that we'll get 80,000 Gold volume 3 within the next year if they survive.
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Wonder if whichever employee bought the hosting left the company and therefore no one was getting the email reminders that they needed to renew. I've heard of some non-profits where their web site domains expired because of things like that.
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@harmlessdave said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
I do hope they're not dead yet, since there's at least a chance that we'll get 80,000 Gold volume 3 within the next year if they survive.
Agreed.
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i wonder when sol press will get there website back up
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@whyohwhy1 Damn it’s still down? I can’t help but feel that they’ll be out of business before the years end
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end of the year? you're over-optimistic almost to the point of delusion
their last tweet was 08/11 - about 2 weeks ago, nothing on facebook for almost a year- no press releases, no news...now I know that social media isn't how every company markets themselves, but for a digital media company NOT to have any updates on platforms where they actually have a presence, and a website down for weeks, and with a history of not doing (pretty much anything) well/expediently...this is the 'writing on the wall' - I'm speculating that they are already bankrupt and in reorganization and or renegotiation for managing debt (licenses cost money, if you don't finish projects you can't sell, you can't pay back your investors who put up the money to acquire the licenses etc...)
the next news item/press release will be blowing sunshine about 'we're back on our feet- everything is fine, pay no attention to the man behing the curtain'
the one after that - will be 'thanks to all our patrons/fans, it was a good run but we were forced to file chapter 11 or 13...'
the one after that will be (maybe) a link to who bought the corpse(edit to add - the press releases might not actually happen - another likely scenario is just a flurry of news items from other publishers announcing the licenses they 'rescued'- and Sol is never heard from again)
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God some licence rescues would be a dream... But most likely the series they carry will be dead in the water if/when Sol implodes
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@shipteaser said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
God some licence rescues would be a dream... But most likely the series they carry will be dead in the water if/when Sol implodes
I do not know the details of the agreements - but I suspect the most likely case would be that terms in the agreements between Sol and the respective publishers would specify that licenses would revert back to original Japanese publishers (who can then strike a deal with some other translation house) - in the case that Sol goes belly up
If that isn't the case- they are an asset that can sold to settle debts under chapter 11/13in either case - it demonstrates why licenses are often optioned 1 volume at a time - could you imagine the nightmare of continuing a series if the entire IP was tied up in probate (vs a single volume)
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As selfish as it sounds, it is probably the only way Rakudai (insert your own series of choice) will escape.
Did not even get the promised paperback version to put next to the Japanese RAWS on my shelves, which made me sad. -
Hopefully JNC rescues 80,000 Gold and Rakudai.
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@village-idiot that's the dream as currently we have more chance of seeing the numerous multi~thousand chapter Chinese epics that are translated at 1 chapter per week conclude before we see the end of the Sol Press licences...
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@shipteaser said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
@village-idiot that's the dream as currently we have more chance of seeing the numerous multi~thousand chapter Chinese epics that are translated at 1 chapter per week conclude before we see the end of the Sol Press licences...
nah, I think it likely we'll see the end of Sol Press itself soon - assuming some other translation/publication house wants 80K (or anything else for that matter- they'd likely have to start translations from scratch) I suspect the titles will be back on the market/out of probate in a year or two-- that's like 10x faster than Sol was publishing works
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@jon-mitchell any new publishers can say that the books will come out in 6 month intervals and it'll still be faster.
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@village-idiot said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
@jon-mitchell any new publishers can say that the books will come out in 6 month intervals and it'll still be faster.
Sol Press: Making the Tentai release schedule look good.
It's been 3 weeks of the website being down, they must have lost their technical staff (who left with the passwords to everything) and/or have run out of money.
Along with 80,000 Gold I'd hope for JNC to also snag Let This Grieving Soul Retire. I have no idea whether it's good, but I liked Ringer by the same author.
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@harmlessdave
yea Tentai is not fast, I'm not too surprised. They are HQ in Spain, a small operation, and the schedule shows them on hiatus in July/August (when many folks in Europe take their vacations) but at least they post a schedule and pretty much have stuck to it. Sol ONTOH...well, you know.I believe when Sol finishes its death rattles, it'll still be months before titles are even available to be rescued
