Let's All Bootleg "THE TOPEKA SCHOOL" by BEN LERNER - craven dirt-faced EBAY weasels

Ebay's weasels always seem to get another name, or three, and go write back to screwing authors, publishers and bookstores. Also, the authorized websites that offer Kindle/Nook downloads.

Here's the same slimeball with THREE alias, all of them stealing from BEN LERNER (among others).

EBAY insists "we're just a venue," so people have to use "report item" and scroll around for "other" violations and then "digital downloads." Then hope that whoever sees it isn't asleep, or taking a mango-eating break.

To peasants from the Third World (who barely speak English and only know how to ape each other's ads) seem to think $2.99 is a lot of money. Well, if you're an author $2.99 might be your royalty for the hardcover book that somebody DIDN'T buy because the cheap one with the header PDF (or P.D.F. to try and get by the bots) is on it.

"Oh lookie, I can get a copy for only $2.99. Hell, that beats Kindle. And this fine, fine seller is claiming to have the right to sell it. What could be wrong?"

You'd think by now the major publishers would want to stop this piracy. It could help them make some money in times when most bookstores are shuttered, and they get chump change from Jeff Bezos on downloads.

How about protecting recent hardcover books like this one, from greedy, obnoxious, soulless assholes who pretend to be in America when they're more likely in Sri Lanka, Croatia, or some other armpit nation.

ALL three ads from ALL three of those fake-names had the SAME copy:

Ben Lerner's publisher is MacMillan. They have a somewhat confusing website, but if you hunt around, you'll find a "report piracy" page. However, they have a box to tick: AUTHOR or NOT. Many book companies only want to hear from the author. If a FAN wants to take five minutes to hand them all the information they need (name of book, name of author, URLS involved) they might or might NOT tell some intern to file the DMCA.

In this era where piracy is rampant, and unpaid interns are plentiful, there's no excuse for vermin from Sri Lanka to relentlessly skim off $2.99 ten or fifty or a hundred times before they get caught.

EBAY can do its part by making sure reports to "DIGITAL DOWNLOAD" are taken seriously, and ONE violation from a slimeball who has nothing but PDF downloads, should mean PERMANENT SUSPENSION and loss of PAYPAL.