Having called The When Gravity Fails blog our home for many, many (man we're old) years at the start of 2015 we decided it was time for a change...
This blog was started back in 2006 by then owners Black Library, when Rebellion Publishing purchased the imprint in 2009 it came to sit alongside our other sister imprints Abaddon Books and 2000 AD, and the blog came with it. Then back in 2013 we launched a new, exciting YA and Children's imprint called Ravenstone which promises to bring the freshest and most cutting-edge titles to the market.
That's a whole lot of books going on, and we don't want you to miss any of our outpourings (from award-winning anthologies and novels, to classic pulp fiction, to literary genre mind-benders) so we decided it was time to bring all our projects in to one home.
While we're sad to see the blog go (and we promise we'll keep the old posts up should you ever want to see some of the weird and wonderful thoughts we've had over the years) we hope you'll join us in our new home where you can keep track of ALL our projects under one roof: www.rebellionpublishing.com.
Come over and we'll pop the kettle on.
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Rebellion Publishing: DRM Free Since 2006
‘DRM Free since 2006!’ It falls some way short of being a sexy headline, but how do you compete with other publishers apparently news-worthy headlines about going DRM-free in 2014, when it’s been 8 years since Rebellion took that decision?
Rebellion Publishing may not be one of the instantly recognisable names in the UK book trade, but for fifteen years we've been the home of the British institution 2000 AD, and first published our perennially bestselling graphic novel collection, Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 01 back in 2005 (we publish volume 23 this summer). The following year we founded our first fiction imprint Abaddon Books. And in those pre-Kindle, pre-Twitter days, when digital rights management was something most publishers assumed was a music industry issue, Rebellion also started selling digital files for download with no DRM.
How was it that we took the step that most digitally-savvy publishers came to many years later? We had one big advantage, Rebellion is also a tech company, one of the leading computer games developers and publishers in the UK (our latest, Sniper Elite III, is out at the end of June). Our founders and owners Jason and Chris Kingsley understood how important ownership was for a digital consumer, how being able to buy something and keep it was a vital part of the trust relationship between publisher and reader, and gamer. You bought the digital copy? Well that’s yours to keep forever, and not just until you change device or operating system. It can be put like this: we value the support of legitimate customers more than we hate the activity of people who steal from us.
In the years since 2006 we've acquired the SF imprint Solaris books; begun simultaneous publishing in the UK and North America; launched the children’s and YA literature imprint Ravenstone; started our standalone ebook shop rebellionstore.com to go alongside 2000adonline.com; and have seen our books feature on the best-seller lists time and time again.
So, as a leading publisher of comics and genre fiction in the UK it’s great to have had Tor and others join us in the DRM-free world. The others will be along soon, we're sure.
Aliens vs. Predator
Just a big shout out to our colleagues in Rebellion Video Games, who you may or may not know that we at Solaris Books share an office with. Their recently released game Aliens vs. Predator is currently number one on all platforms in the UK, beating games such as BioShock 2! It's also the fastest-selling game in the UK of 2010!
Props to be you, guys! Guess all those months of making us poor publishers listen to weird alien noises coming from the sound room actually came to something, huh?
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SFX Weekender: Fourth Post
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