From: Sam Sloan <ishipres <at> BEST <dot> COM>
Date: 27 apr 1997
Subject: Re: Ishi Press

Both of those addresses of Ishi Press are no good any more.

The San Jose California address is definitely bad. That address was vacated
on May 1, 1995. A California renegade group has essentially stolen the Ishi
Press name, but they do not have permission to reprint any Ishi Press books
and they sold out of our books long ago.

If you hear of the California Ishi Press selling any Ishi Press books please
let us know because these are pirated books illegally reprinted. They do not
pay the authors any royalties, among other things. There is a major court
case going on in San Jose California federal court over this.

The Japan Ishi Press has moved. Because of the afore mentioned litigation,
no new Ishi Press books are being published. None of the members of the
renegade group in California play go at all, so they will not be publishing
any go books.

Go books are now sold through Yutopian Enterprises in Santa Monica
California and through Shack en Go in Holland. I advise you to contact them.
If you have any special requests which they cannot supply, please contact me.

One casualty of this is that Shogi for Beginners by John Fairbairn, an Ishi
Press book, will not be reprinted, at least not until the litigation is
settled in our favor.

I have several web pages dealing with this situation. One of these is at:

http://www.ishipress.com/summary.htm

Sam Sloan, President
Ishi Press


At 10:15 AM 4/27/97 +0200, you wrote:
>Could someone mail me the postal addresses of the Ishi Press both in Japan
>and the USA? The ones I have:
>
>  Ishi Press International
>  1301-5 Yabata, Chigasaki-shi
>  Kanagawa-ken, Japan T253
>
>  Ishi Press International
>  76 Bonaventura Drive
>  San Jose CA 95134, USA
>
>resulted in a "return to sender".
>
>Thanks,
>Hugo Hollanders
>
>