Verso website re-activation?

[petee]

good morning comrades. i've received an email purporting to be from Verso, saying their website has moved to a new host and i need to do something:

Great news! We moved our website to Shopify, which will provide our readers with a far more user-friendly browsing experience. Simply click the button below to activate your new Verso account, as your old account will no longer work on the new site.

i've had spamming issues in the past at the email address where i received this, so i'd like to hear if anyone else has had this message.
i have a library with them so i'm concerned to keep my account.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They've got a banner on their homepage so it looks legit

 

[farmerbarleymow]

https://help.versobooks.com/en-US/our-new-website-what-you-need-to-know-193560

 

[petee]

https://help.versobooks.com/en-US/our-new-website-what-you-need-to-know-193560

thank you !!!

 

[Throbbing Angel]

I've received the same email petee

 

[PursuedByBears]

Me too

 

[Pickman's model]

And me

 

[petee]

thanks all, i did the thing and it seems okay

 

[hitmouse]

I thought that since they did the redesign they'd started watermarking their ebooks with the purchaser's name and email address. I then looked into it a bit more and realised that they'd always done that and I'd only just noticed, so anyone I've shared a Verso epub with before today knows my full name and email address. That's what I get for sharing epubs without bothering to open them.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I thought that since they did the redesign they'd started watermarking their ebooks with the purchaser's name and email address. I then looked into it a bit more and realised that they'd always done that and I'd only just noticed, so anyone I've shared a Verso epub with before today knows my full name and email address. That's what I get for sharing epubs without bothering to open them.

A kindle in one hand and google street view in the other. The state of your bin shed, hitmouse!

 

[hitmouse]

A kindle in one hand and google street view in the other. The state of your bin shed, hitmouse!

I had to read through this one a few times before I got it, at first I thought it was a joke about my sense of direction. Which is indeed shockingly poor, but I couldn't work out its relevance to the subject of the thread. Anyway, this never would've happened with a good old PDF.

 

[Dom Traynor]

I thought that since they did the redesign they'd started watermarking their ebooks with the purchaser's name and email address. I then looked into it a bit more and realised that they'd always done that and I'd only just noticed, so anyone I've shared a Verso epub with before today knows my full name and email address. That's what I get for sharing epubs without bothering to open them.

I used to do that and when I was a school governor one of the teachers came up to me and was like "you work with my partner" because I'd shared an ebook with her and she had then shared it with him.

 

[Lurdan]

Verso used to use quite a complicated non-DRM watermarking system called BooXtream, which had multiple optional elements aside from the name and email address thing. All of them enabled publishers who subscribed to this system to identify the source of leaked books. They may still use it.

I seem to recall that Verso described it as 'social DRM'.

So a bit like how, in the most common forms of 'socialist society', wage labour and social hierarchy would be re-branded to something else. Probably involving the word 'peoples'.

 

[petee]

Fundraising appeal

 

[ska invita]

Fundraising appeal

At the time it entered administration, Marston owed Verso nearly £1 million for book sales stretching back to January. Marston suspended shipping our books at the end of July, having laid off most of its staff, effectively severing Verso’s access to the UK market. Though Verso invested significantly in acquiring, editing, printing, and marketing books it published in the first half of 2024, it has received virtually no revenue for these sales in the UK.

The collapse of Marston is a major blow to Verso. We are asking any comrade who has the ability to consider making a pledge in support of Verso and its Autumn 2024 list, which will be published as we navigate this crisis.


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