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Peace be upon you and the mercy of God, dear brothers. This segment may seem personal and unimportant for you to share, but you will see that it is not important to me personally only, but a duty upon me to protect you as readers, and to protect the author brothers and publishers from exploitation done in my name and in the name of my books. So listen to it, may God honor you and share it, and I will ask you in it for things that help to stop this exploitation, God willing.
Your help in these matters will facilitate for us the publication of a free electronic version of "The Story of Inas" as many have requested, and the publication of others, God willing.
We need to go back a bit; years ago, I published two books: "Having Good Opinions of Allah" and "Nada Complains to Aisha, may God be pleased with her." I gave them to a publishing house outside Jordan, thinking well of this house, and told them: "I do not want any compensation or rights from you, on condition that you sell the books at a reasonable price," and I published a free electronic version of the two books on the internet.
I was later surprised to find that this house was approached by a publisher from another country who said to them: "Give me permission to print Dr. Iyad's books," so they said to him: "Okay, but for the sum of money such and such" - which was a very large amount for every thousand copies of the two books -. So he said to them: "This is a large amount," and the house replied: "No, Dr. Iyad takes half of this amount!" and they gave him the money.
Then doubt entered his heart, so he contacted me, and I verified the matter and found that this brother was sincere, and that the publishing house had betrayed the trust, so we canceled their endorsement.
What this publishing house does is that it puts my pictures in book fairs, which is something I confirmed to them not to do before discovering their true nature, so they did it again after cutting off relations with me; I never approve of displaying my picture to indicate my books.
And among the most dangerous things this house does - which I recently found out about - is that it goes to some of the author brothers and tempts them to deal with it and says to them: "Dr. Iyad has agreed with us to print his books," as evidence that we print such and such a book, then if the author is involved and trusts them and gives them exclusive rights, they start preventing him from his entitlements.
And what this house also does is that it floods the markets with unendorsed copies of my books; meaning sometimes I make corrections and additions to the books such as "The Pleasure of Contemplation" and send the corrected copies to the endorsed publishers, and this mentioned house publishes unaltered copies because the deal between us is cut off in the first place.
After many problems we have had with this house, dear ones, our prices tend to be relatively cheap so that the good in them reaches everyone who asks for it or needs it as much as possible. And unfortunately, even the houses we agreed with, some of them have violated the agreement and sold my books at very high prices that I do not approve of and did not agree to in some fairs, and we withdrew their endorsement for that, and some of them returned and pledged to comply, so we re-endorsed them, and God is our helper.
And in general, the publishing houses that we have endorsed abide by the rules and it is clear that they want the interest of the call and not the material aspect only, so may God reward them well.
Okay, after all this, what is required?
First: Knowing the List of Endorsed Publishing Houses Brothers, you should know the list of endorsed publishing houses in different countries and help us publish it. How do we know them? Through:
All these sources have several books available for free, and the printed ones are sold at prices ranging from 2.5 to 7 euros (or their equivalent), meaning less than half of the exploitative prices at which they are now sold. And our brothers in America and Canada, we have endorsed for them a non-profit institution that will provide you with books at very cheap prices, God willing.
Now, dear ones, the more you direct people to these endorsed houses, the faster we will be in publishing the electronic versions available to everyone, God willing.
Second: Price Control On the "Dr. Iyad Qunibi's Books" page, we fix the prices of the books for different countries. If anyone finds a book being sold at other than these prices, I ask him to inform us on Telegram and on the designated page on Facebook; to prevent exploitation and preserve the reputation of my brother who may be thought to accept these inflated prices.
A final and very important note: "Dar Al-Bidaa" in Egypt is never endorsed by us at all, and we have not dealt with it for a long time, and it has not obtained the updated and corrected copies from us. And there is no truth at all to what is claimed that it has exclusive or non-exclusive rights to any of our books. So please be attentive; this house is not endorsed and there is no deal between us and it does not have any rights.
Your brothers' keenness on purchasing books from the appropriate parties contributes to organizing the process and protecting the endorsed publishing houses.
Peace be upon you and the mercy of God the Almighty and His blessings.