This series "Nidome no Jinsei wo Isekai de" is listed as published by J-Novel Club. Due to some legal problems regarding the author, the English publisher ended up purging the series from their site and all digital stores (no print copies were ever made). Does it make sense to leave an English publisher listed when they discontinued publication and purged the series?
This is the kind of thing that is probably handled on a case by case basis, but my guess is that they'll still be listed for archiving reasons. It's just a guess though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Life+:_Young_Again_in_Another_World#Controversy For the curious (and lazy ). Not so much "legal problems" as "turns out the author is racist and people didn't like that". Which is a bit refreshing, honestly. Some backlash to racism is pretty normal, but "delete everything, cancel everything, everyone quit in protest" is pleasantly unusual. @runsing decided to go ahead and remove it. But you're correct - this is an unusual circumstance that has to be decided on the spot, basically. We don't really have any pre-existing policy for english publishers that stop being english publishers and purge their own work. There's something to be said for archival, but at the end of the day NU doesn't really track paid releases... if we had links, we'd mark them dead and people could see they'd existed, but for this all we really had was the english publisher field.
late reply but for cases like this, could always put a "(discontinued)" or other some such entry after the publisher name.