So I stumbled across this a few minutes ago …

Reader blogs about Lulu printing up a copy of Applegeeks #1-141 in TPB format

(and in case the site goes down/is taken down: PDF of blog)

We are not happy at all. I’m going to be very clear right now - we’re not Little Gamers. They are very fucking cool to release their book for free, in a PDF format like they did a few months ago (and I admire them for it) - but we don’t do that. As much as Applegeeks is for fun, we take it very fucking seriously. We put a lot of work into this project. We provide it for free on the Internet. Printing them out at home, all of them, or putting them up in the office, we don’t have a problem with that. But this is different. At LEAST have the decency to ask us for permission before doing something like this - and if you do it, ask us before you use our material as an example on your site. But no … this person went ahead and printed a book through a publishing company. Which, of course, brings me to the next point.

What the fuck are you doing Lulu?

“Please note that Lulu is not a publisher, but instead provides users with tools to publish their own content. Because Lulu is not a publisher, we do not review work published through our site. We do expect all content to be consistent with our Member Agreement and reserve the right to remove content we deem to be illegal or inappropriate.”

Oh, yay, so no one has to take responsibility. Nice.

I am way too tired to put up with this crap. Good night everybody.

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