The Scribe Media Files

How the biggest hybrid publishing company in the world imploded.

Disclaimers:

I have no interest in any of what is contained in this report being true. I was set to pay Scribe Media nearly $15,000 more for my second book, due to be out in November, and had paid approximately $40,000 to them in the publication of my first book that came out almost a year ago. In pure selfish purposes, I would highly prefer all of these things to be untrue.

However, this report is deliberately designed to be unselfish. Many people have been hurt by this. Almost all of us, it seems, have been lied to. What we thought was true, what we have been told from Scribe Media about Scribe Media, may not have been true at all. The corruption and deceit from top-level leadership over the brand of one of the top up-and-coming alternative publishing companies in the world seems so systematic and totalizing that the very idea of the company itself seems laughable at its kindest and outright fraudulent at its worst. 

The identifier of “top-level leadership” is crucial to distinguish. One of the most painful things about the events of the last few weeks has been the suffering of many people I’ve personally known make my dream of being an author a reality. The former employees of Scribe Media, the so-called “Scribe Tribe”, seem to be mostly blameless in this case. As per the old saying, when the rich catch a cold, the poor die of pneumonia. 

All of my sources, which I can say are greater than 10 individual people I’ve spoken with directly and nearly 50 secondhand over sources to be later cited, chose to remain anonymous out of fear of retribution from Scribe Media. I will, under no circumstances, reveal those sources unless they choose to reveal themselves. These people have a lot to lose. They are very courageous in telling me what they’ve told me, and I ask all of you to respect their anonymity as I will. 

It is quite possible I get things wrong throughout the duration of the Scribe Media Files. I am working with imperfect information, and am doing my best to paint the picture as I see it with the facts I have to work with. I am more than happy to be corrected by anyone who presents new evidence to the contrary. With the current business, financial, and legal proceedings surrounding the current situation of Scribe Media, I understand that some voices could very well be stifled. I want to hear from them, too, if they dare.

But, until that point is reached, we’ve heard enough from the people who have lost little, and the liars who have protected them. Now, we must give our attention to those who have lost a lot, the people who, willingly or (most likely) unwillingly, helped prop up what seems to be one of the biggest business fraud and ponzi schemes that I, and probably many of you, have personally known or heard about.

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