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I need help for a 12y/o tsunami victim in Thailand? My friend Kay's family house and two long tail boats?


were smashed by the tsunami which
was detailed in a Swedish-language book entitled "Kay from Koh Lanta",
published by LL Forlaget Publishing in Sweden, a company partially funded by
state grants.

Swedish author Johanna Starkenberg-Frojd and photographer Anna Rehnberg
arrived on the island shortly after the December 2004 natural disaster
looking for a real life survivor's story and found Kay (and family) a
perfect subject.

The family never signed an official release form of permission to publish
Kay's story but trusted that the benefits would eventually flow back to
them. The editor promised Kay a trip to Sweden which never materialized but
the family assumed a small amount of the books proceeds would be forthcoming
to help jump start Kay's education.
so now locals claim the publishers are
deliberately choosing to manipulate tsunami victims for financial advantage.

LL Forlaget Publishing, which sells the book online
have refused, after several polite request to help kay's education

Thats disgusting! to make money out of other people's tragedy and not compensate them in some way, although un-ethical, it is not illegal as her parents never entered a contract with the publisher. Try going "public" with this story, newspapers are always looking for "human interest" stories such as this, try writing to magazines too.....GET IT OUT THERE ! you can Name and Shame them at the very least ! Good Luck my friend. xx

Money grubbers. I hope you have libel cover.
Court costs can be expensive.

Copius googling failed to come up with any reference to this story outside of blog entries on various travel sites, all of which were asking for donations to be sent to an email address for a travel company.

Also, the named publisher, LL-Forlaget, publishes "easy to read" books in Swedish targeted at the developmentally disabled, so such a book (which isn't listed in their catalog) ould seem to be unlikely for them.

I think this claim needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.

EDIT:... Reading the post below, and it's links, I stand corrected. The Swedish media would seem to be the best way to take this.

Richard

The book is for sale here:
http://www.bokus.com/b/9789170530852.htm...
Kay - fr氓n Koh Lanta i Thailand
Bandtyp: Inbunden
F枚rlag: LL-f枚rlaget (2006)
Upplaga: 1
Spr氓k: Svenska
Artikelid: 9789170530852

The original story was from the Phuket Gazette it was published on Jan 5th, 2008 and Sept.13th, 2007 (PDF)
Written by Mr. Duane Lennie



The eMail is a contact for the parents- who can't read english. For more info you can contact them at helpkay@lantalongtail.com

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