Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@hawkens - "so say we all" :)
I'd join in hoping they fail, except who knows how long their licenses would be tied up before being rescued? Though I guess even if it was 2 years JNC could still finish 80,000 Gold before Slow Press will.
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@harmlessdave The concern is that companies may be hesitant to re-license things that are considered "failures" or the window of opportunity for the series may have passed since the initial licensing.
I'd say my hope would be for Sol to just keep chugging along at a snail's pace but they really have sucked beyond any and all expectation, so these days I'd be willing to take the chance 80k (the series I'm most interested in by them) never gets saved rather than live with the surety that it will go so slow it will likely never get finished.
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@custodes I'll tell you this, I'm not buying because I already tried buying and they've had my money without delivering my books for well over a year now. That they can't even deliver long since paid physical copies of volume 1 of the 80,000 Gold manga and light novel by now is absolutely pathetic, and particularly infuriating given they have produced some physical volumes of Rakudai in the time between. As far as I'm concerned, Sol Press is blacklisted for me until they deliver what they owe.
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Anyone else find that the Sol Press website is down?
Was trying to see their monthly non-progress report.Author of Praetor's Blood.
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It's down for me as well.May they finally went down due to all of their mismanagement.
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Nothing in their twitter account about the situation. Last tweet is from 26 July.
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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.
