December 4, 2001

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America President Norman Spinrad learned today that AOL Time Warner has terminated its iPublish subsidiary when a meeting between himself, the CEO, Editor in Chief, and Science Fiction Editor to discuss SFWA's problems with iPublish's contracts and modus operandi was canceled.

"While SFWA's differences with iPublish over contractual and other matters were public and well-known," Spinrad declared, "the canceled meeting was intended to seek their amelioration through negotiation and compromise, and the atmospherics seemed promising. We regret that iPublish was terminated before it could take place. It was never the intent of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America to destroy the company."

iPublish.com at Time Warner Books was established in June, 2001. SFWA objected to the terms of iPublish which were considered to be extremely harmful to authors.

At this time the iPublish web site is still intact, with no reference to any changes to the program.

Posted December 4, 2001