Sol Press Discussion Thread
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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
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I'd say buy up Detestable Demon Lord at least any way you can get it since it's finished.
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@jon-mitchell said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
@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
I mostly agree, but I gave in last month and bought volume 4 of Detestable Demon Lord (digital) since that completes the series and it isn't likely to get a license rescue.
I'm also glad I have the two volumes of Strongest Gamer since that was fun and also never coming back.
80,000 Gold will hopefully be rescued since it's FUNA and (in my opinion) better than the last 2-3 volumes of Potion Loli. So people should skip the Sol version.
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@harmlessdave said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
80,000 Gold will hopefully be rescued since it's FUNA and (in my opinion) better than the last 2-3 volumes of Potion Loli. So people should skip the Sol version.
Book 1 is sold out on Amazon and book 2 doesn’t have a paperback according to Amazon. I checked.
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So Sol press had to have gone out of business. I honestly can't think of anything else to explain everything just going dark for several months.
Still, I'm a little surprised. Most companies that actually have customers will atleast tell you they are going out of business. Maybe they ran into legal trouble?
Either way... Fingers crossed JNovel can save 80,000 Gold.
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Actually, on their discord they have been very consistent in stating that they are not going bankrupt, have zero legal or money issues, and that they can't tell us a single thing due to nondescript NDAs other than all will be well at some point that they're still working on things for the future.
It's all incredibly frustrating and I have no idea what their management is thinking or how they expect anyone to be willing to do business with them in the future even if they do poof back into how they were before the website disappeared (which itself would hardly be something to celebrate as they have been incredibly slow and opaque over the past year or so). I feel really bad for both their employees who have to parrot this stuff and deal with us, and their really good IPs like Chivalry that feel basically abandoned at this point.
If J-Novel got the Chivalry license from them I'd lock myself into Membership here for at least a full year.
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Yeah. Not sure what world they are in where an NDA prevents them from having their website etc. And not being able to say why it's all gone...
Clearly a bull party line they are being forced to spout...
