"We are such a bunch of fat cats, we ignore Ebay bootleggers. We have ALL the money. We just tossed $250,000 away on a greasy racist bastard!"
The first part? Nobody's checking for blatant bootlegging like THIS:
The second part?
Why in the world validate a jerk who was tossed off TWITTER?
You have to be pretty EXTREME to be banned by TWITTER. They allow all kinds of bullying and even pornography. There are WHORES on TWITTER and PORN STARS calling attention to themselves. Here's a surly, racist Breitbart bully who happily made a name for himself by targeting a black female comedian for abuse. Now he's rewarded for it.
Do you want to say that at one time the publishing world was above this kind of pandering and sleaze?
Go read Carly Simon's autobiography, and check the part where she talks about how her father, a founder in Simon & Schuster, was pushed out of his own company in a power play.
The insult added to the injury is that price tag. Consider that the average non-fiction writer, who may "as a labor of love," would be willing to do a year or two of research for a $2500 advance. Many have "day jobs," or lazy day jobs (college professor) and the advance would just cover some transportation costs and or treating an interview subject to a nice dinner, or paying an "honorarium" to somebody willing to allow for duplication of archive material.
That's 100 great non-fiction books...for the price of one piece of shit written by a piece of shit.
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