Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@jon-mitchell - Their Discord is still up for now. Tsmalls is just a moderator not staff I think.
Tsmalls — 08/09/2021
Shouldn’t be more than a few days now hopefullyTsmalls — 08/20/2021
There’s multiple of us trying to get to the bottom of this stuff
Also xev is aliveMost recent response, to "Any news on the site situation?"
Tsmalls — 08/28/2021
nothing that im told yet -
idk - i'm shocked any business can be run like this , I would have expected them to do more update on twitter/ discord as honestly i think sol press slow release rate / poor marketing will hurt sale of there next round of light novel releases ( most likely around December -i hope at least)
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@whyohwhy1 - not even the staff (translators & editors?) and moderator on Discord seem to know what's going on.
Either management isn't bothering to even tell their own staff what's wrong, or they have but the news is something like: we're shutting down but stay quiet about it so we can get a last bit of sales from Amazon, etc.
Even if they lost all the code for their site, as long as they had the login for the domain registry they should've been able to set up a placeholder website in an hour or two. Even without that login, the owner of the domain should be able to contact the registry and get a new login in a day or two. It's been almost a month now.
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Sol Press is registered in California(according to available info), but https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/ doesn't yield any results, at least on the name 'Sol Press'. As far I know all corporations and LLCs must file a statement of information in CA so it should show up be there. Under a different name?
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@korppi It did return a result for me:
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@nosgoroth Oh, I accidentally checked the corporation box, not the LLC/LP one, that's why it didn't show...
I did notice they're 3 months late on their SoI according to the page...
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@korppi Welp.
Just did a coogle dive and found out all sorts of stuff concerning incorporating in Delaware even if actually located in California.The US has some really weird things going on with how the laws differ from state to state...
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@weasalopes Yes, we do. Some states make it rather hard to incorporate, but are perfectly willing to tax "foreign" corporations to operate in their state. Been there, done that. The last corporation we did was in-state, so there was only one set of paperwork (and taxes) to file.
A major source of revenue for the state of Delaware is corporate taxes AND the "representative agents" for all those corporations not based there. You must maintain a point-of-presence in the state, which is done by hiring a local agent. The cost of that actually exceeds the taxes for a lot of corporations, and their primary job is to say, "Yes, they have an office here!"
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@someoldguy said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
their primary job is to say, "Yes, they have an office here!"
Sounds like... The Ideal Sponger Life
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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Welp.
The Sol Press website now has an initial message saying that there isn't a web site set up at that domain, and then redirects to the nfoservers web site; I gather they're the folks who were the hosting firm.
That sure looks like Sol Press didn't pay their hosting fees.
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@weasalopes said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
Welp.
The Sol Press website now has an initial message saying that there isn't a web site set up at that domain, and then redirects to the nfoservers web site; I gather they're the folks who were the hosting firm.
That sure looks like Sol Press didn't pay their hosting fees.
Not a good sign.It might actually be a good sign? Before the domain was not resolving at all (ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED). But now it resolves and points to the hosting again.
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any news / update on sol press
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website is non existent
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no updates on twitter (for weeks!)
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no idea on discord (I'm not a user)
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Wikipedia has note about them going dark...in August 2021 and nothing updated since
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last 'project roundup' post on facebook is from October 2020
Sol is either dead or comatose (more so than usual)
My hope is that the licenses held by them can be liberated soon and some other localization company can work on what's next. (it isn't the fault of the original creators that the works were licensed by Sol and are now in limbo)I read banned books
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@terabyte said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
It might actually be a good sign? Before the domain was not resolving at all (ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED). But now it resolves and points to the hosting again.
I don't think so
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@jon-mitchell said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
@terabyte said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
It might actually be a good sign? Before the domain was not resolving at all (ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED). But now it resolves and points to the hosting again.
I don't think so
Yeah, the domain resolves again but there's been no change for 2+ weeks. No hope left.
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All of their public activity has stopped since August.
It would be best to start praying for their titles to be rescued rather than waiting for them to come back.
I feel sorry for the folks that are waiting for the new release of their titles.
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Yeah even for Sol Press this level of incompetence seems terminal
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The website has now been offline for over two months, the last twitter post was 8-11.
The discord is still running but that's free and automatic I guess. There's still a volunteer mod but they don't know anything either. There were a couple of low-level staff around (contractors?) but they either know nothing or are under NDA.
It's dead, just staying quiet about it so they can keep selling existing titles on Amazon, Kobo, etc.
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@harmlessdave said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
It's dead, just staying quiet about it so they can keep selling existing titles on Amazon, Kobo, etc.
RIP
I'd recommend against buying whatever on Amazon, Kobo wherever at this point (unless physical and in stock) who knows what you'll actually get and there isn't anyone to hold accountable if an ebook is wrong/messed up... and why reward them at this point anyway
