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RAF Section => Introductions & Departures => Topic started by: melon12 on October 08, 2011, 11:29:11 PM

Title: What's up with the ebooks?
Post by: melon12 on October 08, 2011, 11:29:11 PM

I've been reading through the ebooks on the site for the past two months and made it up to #13, then all of a sudden it cut me off. It directed me to the message about distribution, but that was from 2010- why was I able to read for so long then it suddenly ended? I was never able to finish the series and was hoping to do so online, anyone know what the problem is or if another site is hosting them?

Title: Re: What's up with the ebooks?
Post by: goom on October 09, 2011, 01:12:03 AM

scholastic finally requested that we take them down, most likely since they were re-releasing the series.

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Though Animorphs has long not been published, RAF, they claim, is infringing on their trademark of "Animorphs", and by having the "unauthorized" Animorphs eBooks online, "creates a likelihood of confusion as to the source of origin of the goods and services you provide and is likely to deceive and confuse customers into believing that (you) are owned or endorsed by Scholastic..."

Title: Re: What's up with the ebooks?
Post by: melon12 on October 12, 2011, 06:19:02 PM

Nooo. That's terrible.
Never finished the series but am embarrassed to be an adult walking around with animorphs books so this was the perfect solution.
Anyone know of another site?

Title: Re: What's up with the ebooks?
Post by: super_sonic on October 28, 2011, 09:50:00 PM

Quote from: goom on October 09, 2011, 01:12:03 AM

scholastic finally requested that we take them down, most likely since they were re-releasing the series.

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Though Animorphs has long not been published, RAF, they claim, is infringing on their trademark of "Animorphs", and by having the "unauthorized" Animorphs eBooks online, "creates a likelihood of confusion as to the source of origin of the goods and services you provide and is likely to deceive and confuse customers into believing that (you) are owned or endorsed by Scholastic..."

Scholastic is re-releasing the Animorphs series? When are they doing this? Assuming they have not already done so, because I have been out of the loop for so long...

Title: Re: What's up with the ebooks?
Post by: RYTX on October 28, 2011, 10:03:33 PM

they started coming out in May. http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/books/index.htm (http://www.scholastic.com/animorphs/books/index.htm)
I know at least 4 is out by now, maybe 5 and 6 through pre-orders
Scholastic aimed to go up to at least 6, but I don't think we've heard if they have any plans on what will happen from there

Have we?

Title: Re: What's up with the ebooks?
Post by: yunyun on October 30, 2011, 05:11:45 PM

according to Hirac Delest, #7 and 8 is also coming out.  http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=3345 (http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=3345)

and yeah, it sucks that the ebooks are gone