Publisher Unbound Slides Into Administration

"I might have accidentally destroyed an entire publishing house!"

Update [Fri 14th Mar 2025, 2:15pm]: The Bookseller has reported that troubled on-demand book publisher Unbound has gone into administration.

Allister Manson and Charles Turner of Opus Restructuring were appointed administrators of the company on 10th March 2025.

Author Steven Goodwin, one of the many writers who hasn't been paid by the publisher, has posted the following message on Linkedin:

I might have accidentally destroyed an entire publishing house!

At the end of 2023 I released a book "20 GOTO 10" via the publisher Unbound. (4.4 stars on Amazon!) It sold tens of thousands of copies, and yet, I was not paid for any of them. I waited. Politely emailed. Looked past their emails of "any day now" and waited some more.

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