I have been unable to answers all of the emails sent to me and I apologize for this, but 600 and counting emails is a lot.
Index Book and Azur Corporation have informed me that Index Book are sorry that they made a mistake by giving me Azur’s contact information as their supplier, but Index Book are yet to update their site with the correct information. I’m still working my way up the chain to find the company or people behind Great Creativity organization (Which as far as I know is a fake publisher) and Index book are still happily selling ‘Colorful Illustrations 93°C’. Hopefully the AOI or GAG will do their bit and put a stop to the sale of the book, but they are currently waiting for their members to make contact and supply them with more information before they can proceed in anyway.
I will not personally be considering legal action until the publisher is found and we have someone to sue, I’m leaving it in the hands of the cummunity and the organizations that represent the illustration community, like the AOI or GAG to try and put a stop to the sale of this book.
Here is the contact information for Index Book’s supplier.
Sophia
Guangzhou Sendpoints Books Co.,Ltd.
Add: #80 Xin Ya Rd.,Haizhu District, Guangzhou, China
Tel: 86 20 89095121
Fax: 86 20 89095206
E-mail: spbooks@163.com
MSN:gzsendpoint@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.sendpoint.com.cn
(Please do not link to them)
I have not contacted them yet, as I wanted to get the information out that Azur was only connected due to Index Book’s mistake. If anyone contacts Sophia at Sendpoint before me and please feel free to, please relay her response to me by emailing darren at lcsv4 dot com. I’m guessing I’ll hit a language barrier if I try to phone them, but what I’m after is who and where they got the book from. There are to many resellers selling this for it to have come from small market stall. Sendpoint have a pre-print copy of one of the pages on their site so I’m hoping they will be of more help, because the image hasn’t been taken from the book and must have been supplied to them.

Work by Adhemas Batista
Also as a result of this situation I’m working out the details of a lowbrow LCS magazine with a few friends at the moment, let me know by emailing me if you’re interested in a pre-ordering a copy.
Updates… [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Darren Di Lieto 2:53 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink
More contact information for Sendpoint Books…
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Name: Lin Gengli
Mobile: 86-139 2519 7703
Skype: sendpoint
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Thanks Carly
Jeff Miracola:: Artist and Illustrator:: Blog » Blog Archive » Plagiarism Alert! New art book steals the work of 93 illustrators 4:25 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink
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Jeff miracola 4:27 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink
At least all the fuss worked. I feel sorry fro Azur Corporation since it appears they were an innocent party in this, but I’m glad we now know Index Book’s true supplier. We’re getting closer to the pirates!! Way to go, Darren!
Fubiz 7:43 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink
Thanks for the news about this book.
Laovnia Martin 11:46 pm on April 23, 2008 Permalink
Just a note, I am an illustrator in the business. I posted your blog link to my art blog as well to encourage community support of the issue. I’m doing my part to raise awareness on this particular issue and I hope things work out well for all the artists who were infringed on.
ickleson 3:05 pm on April 24, 2008 Permalink
I was just emailing the aoi about this, I checked Index Books and it looks like they have finnaly taken the book off their site, or at least I couldn’t find it today as I could on Tues.
Maybe we have some progress?
Dee 6:09 pm on April 24, 2008 Permalink
Heard about this story from a friend of mine on the Web. Really sickening. Super talented guy getting his stuff ripped off and having virtually no legal recourse. Anyway, I posted an excerpt from your entry and linked to your updated entry. Also posted a hit on Digg. Good luck.
Darren Di Lieto 7:51 pm on April 24, 2008 Permalink
Here is another update
http://apefluff.com/colorful-illustrations-93c-update-2/