“My Name Is Earl” karma...
So we're publishing, in May, this rather remarkable book called Typo: The Last American Typesetter, or, How I Made and Lost Four Million Dollars (An Entrepreneur's Education). Which details, inter alia, the author David Silverman's efforts to buy and save an American type-setting company Clarinda as that kind of work was in the process of being completely outsourced by American textbook publishers to the Philippines and India.
Said efforts were for naught—as the author writes on his blog:
I was so wrong, I decided to write a book...about what happened to me, Dan, and the 200 employees of Clarinda when we got squeezed out of business by market forces beyond our control...And so it is either delicious irony, cruel fate, or “My Name Is Earl” karma that just a few months before my book is due to come out, my publisher, Richard Nash at Soft Skull Press, pulled me aside before our first meeting with a PR firm to tell me, “I don’t want you to get too worried, but our distributor, PGW, has just filed bankruptcy.”
What?
Read more here.