APS Recalling A Book?

I need some advice..

Received this email from APS today...




I would rather keep the book- it is quite nice.

Do I have that option?

And does anybody know why they are recalling the book?

I'm no lawyer, but I would think that if you paid for it, it's yours. Exceptions would be illegal drugs, I guess.

Do you know if Judy Johnson is really on the staff? I'd give them a call and ask what the hell is going on.

Don

AFAIK, any return would be strictly voluntary. They have no legal mechanism to force you to return it as long as you paid for it.

Am I guessing a copyright issue has cropped up and APS needs to try to recall them to fulfill some agreement. My opinion is that you can safely ignore it if desired. (Not to mention unless they sent everyone a certified letter they could never prove that you even got a notice.)
Don

This is so strange that it's hard to believe that the email is real. Of course nobody can take anything you own, just ignore it. As mentioned, only exception would be a legally forbidden book, but they don't mention anything like that. Another exception would be if you didn't pay yet, then it's still their property sometimes.

Since everyone else in putting in their 2.778 cents worth (I live in Canada) I'll add mine. Probably worth as much as the others.

If it is a copyright issue, then you have perhaps been sold something that didn't belong to the seller. In that case, you may have to return the book or be chucked in the slammer as a "receiver of stolen goods".



I've always wanted to add one of those things!

I got this reply from Judy Johnson.

At least they are not going to throw me in the slammer.

Front Cover


Back Cover

I'll add my own speculation.

Perhaps there was copyright issues with some of the material, and so the APS will republish the book minus the material.

I must say the 150 page book is well done. Anybody with an interest in the postal history of Bermuda should want it. I think the authors are to be congratulated. Also,there is an additional CD inserted in the book with more images.

Definitely a keeper JKJ!

According to Leonard Hartmann's Newsletter: "The new book from the APS, Bermuda Crossroads of the Atlantic A Postal History by Arthur H. Groten & David R. Pitts was withdrawn from sales, it will be released shortly with an errata, we do not know all the details but one problem is it was set up for smithies sewing and was perfect bound thus cutting off the inner margins"

How odd. If it was just a bad printing job, a bad binding job, or whatever, why wouldn't they say that? I mean, if they're offering to do you a favor by providing a newly printed better copy of the book, the usual approach would be to explain the problem in order to convince you to return your "bad" copy for a new one. Instead, they just say you should return your copy so they can do "something" to improve it without telling you why you'd even want to go to the trouble to do that. That does raise my suspicions that they don't really want to say exactly what the problem is. So maybe they're a little embarrassed because it's a poor editing job such as containing some material that has been plagiarized and should have been credited to its sources better, incorrect information that needs fixing, or material accidentally omitted. When someone isn't upfront about why they want something back, wouldn't anyone wonder why? As a former teacher, this reminds me of the occasional high school yearbook screw-up when the administration had to "suggest" everyone return their yearbook so they could be provided a corrected book without wanting to specify exactly what the problem is because that would be too embarrassing to them (a dirty word, a racial remark, students accidentally missing, or some such thing was often the problem no one had caught in time).