Taylor Publishing in Hot Water

This has not been a good year for yearbook publishers. First Lifetouch makes the national news regarding the altering of images in a Texas high school's yearbook, and now, tonight, I see on MSNBC that Taylor Publishing is in hot water. A Google search revealed not one, but two scandals inside of a week:

First, there's a spell checker gone crazy.
When one reads the final comment (reported by the AP) of the Taylor representative, Ed Patrick you have to just get a little sick for our industry. Here's what he said:

"It happens all the time, every year," Patrick said. "Look at any yearbook in the country."

Not exactly a ringing endorsement for the school photography or publishing industries.

Then, as if that isn't enough, a Taylor Publishing representative was recently convicted of a fraudulent scheme where he bilked schools out of over $700,000 over the course of 4 years.

Wow. All that fun in less than a week. Who wants to bet if there might be a vacancy or two in the Taylor public relations department?

Jay