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A trashed magazine from Media Factory

website-builder.JPGWhat a piece of trash Ultimate Website Builder is. This supposedly new title has done the rounds. Copies we received had two price stickers half ripped off. The product looks second hand. Click on the image to see a larger version and the ripped price stickers.

Inside the covers it does not get much better. The content is not new. It certainly is not ultimate in any way. Here is another title of sausage factory content from Australian publishing house Media Factory. The Jim Flynn company which takes cheap overseas content, probably sourced for next to nothing, and barely dressed up as fresh content.

Check the titles from media factory – one Editor.  This says something a out the content.

The Ultimate Website Builder title is, in my view, a sham, certainly not deserving of the title or the new moniker.

It galls me that Network Services requests a full copy return. What? … so Media Factory can send it out again. This is appalling. If the publisher wants full copy return they should fund this – our labour and the additional freight.

Newsagents are being a used with this title.  Maybe this is the title to test the suggestion by some that we have o obligation to return non ACP product as full copy returns.

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  1. Chris W

    For a similar deceptive title, have a look at the Gotch distributed “Magbook” “Build a Better Website” delivered last Wednesday. It has an Australian flag and price on the cover, but the content is entirely from the UK even down to the ads! It is at least new (2011 edition) but with full copy returns I bet we see a reissue later in the year,

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  2. ed

    so mark, what will you do with your copies?

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  3. Mark

    Early return everything Ed. yet to decide whether to top them.

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