"AMAZING. SO HAPPY" to rape E.L. James? With EBAY's HELP?

As pudgy E.L. James would tell you, there are various ways to abuse and dominate women, even in this "Me Too" era. Tiger Woods is a master at it. He engages in "rough sex," and when he goes too far, the woman simply takes her Band-Aids and her aspirin and walks away. Consensual.

RAPE by definition is NOT consensual.

RAPE by definition is taking something from somebody else. It's not just physical. It takes away trust, faith, and even hope. It's a betrayal. It's done with malice and selfishness.

The word has been used in many contexts, and it can be used in this one: the bootlegging of E.L. James' books, and the works of Ruth Ware and several other women. When you take from a woman, what else do you want to call it? Does it have to be violent? Rapists have acted while the victim was drugged. It's happened without the victim even being sure it's happened.

Does pudgy E.L. James know she's being used on eBAY? Does Ruth Ware? Pudgy E.L. James might be the kind of woman who really doesn't care one way or the other. That doesn't mean the guy should get away with it, or do it to other women who might just have a little more intelligence and morality.

Here's some POSITIVE FEEDBACK on an eBay seller who eBay claims to have "warned," over and over for what, a year now? TWO? "Oh, we give a warning. Then we give another warning. I see this account has had a lot of warnings. Not to worry. We will send out another warning."

EBAY protects the identities of the bidders, so we don't know who is "SO HAPPY" with getting a bootleg of one of pudgy E.L. James' moronic badly written "books." The point isn't whether you rape a bag lady or a princess. It's wrong. Does eBay understand this?

YES AND NO. Ebay has said, "Yes, we have a rule against selling digital downloads. But we have MILLIONS of auctions. We don't always have the time to remove auctions reported to us." Stealing and copying an author's book is a low priority to them. What the hell, pudgy E.L. James is worth millions. A nickel and dime Canadian creep pulling in three bucks (after Paypal and eBay take THEIR percentage) is no big deal. Don't say it's "the principle" of thing. It's not like writing is so difficult.

Here's the ad:

No, it's hard to feel sympathetic toward a moron like pudgy E.L. James, or her trailer-trash fiction that suggests women really do want to be abused and assaulted because it's so ROMANTIC. It's hard to feel sorry for a bottom feeder who is even worse than the usual "bodice ripper" garbage that some women read with such delight (even if they wouldn't want to be "ravished" in reality).

But how about her sister authors? ME TOO to RUTH WARE and RACHEL ANDERSON and...

ALL these women should be saying, "NO...you don't TAKE FROM ME. You don't USE ME. You don't MAKE ME YOUR WHORE when you PIMP MY BOOKS AND TAKE ALL THE MONEY."

IT's the PRINCIPLE of the thing. And yet, EBAY has continued to ignore this seller's multiple violations, like some addled judge who decides there's no reason to charge a rapist time after time after time...and then when a case does come to trial, says "probation."

This seller has been caught and STILL not been given a restriction, warning or suspension that has made him STOP.

The seller here is a cheap, penny-ante pimp-minded sociopath. WHAT IS EBAY's EXCUSE? What is PAYPAL's excuse? And where are the publishers and their Web Sheriffs and Digimarc Guards to see to it that their artists are protected? Pudgy E.L. James is living in a bubble (appropriate for someone that looks like one). Any email to her website goes unanswered and anyone using social media to point out these abuses is blocked. There's always the woman who doesn't press charges against her rapist, and waits for her sisters to do it for her, with a ME TOO and a ME TOO and a ME TOO.

Perhaps RUTH WARE and RACHEL ANDERSON and the others will be the ME TOO chorus that doesn't include dumb pudgy E.L. James.

"READ A BOOK A DAY" Says TWITTER - "STEAL A BOOK A DAY" says EBAY

Huh? It's "READ A BOOK A DAY" day on TWITTER? As opposed to "PIZZA DAY" or "FRITOS DAY" or the rest of the crap they throw on that idiot site.

Yes, yes.

How noble. Dozens are getting on their soap boxes to proclaim (how controversial) that they LIKE BOOKS.

Some, who aren't quite clever enough to write something original, dig into Bartlett's or some Google site of BRAINY QUOTES, and post some fine words about the joys of cracking open a book.

Meanwhile, in this digital age, EBAY weasels are happily STEALING from authors and publishers.

They offer cheap illegal downloads and make MORE per book than the AUTHORS would in royalties.

Like this:

NUM NUM!

NUM! NUM! GOT MORE?

LOTS MORE.

Slimy Sandro the illegal Kindle/Nook peddler has plenty more.

So do his sneaky conniving pals, like THIS bastard:

NUM NUM! NUM NUM! GOT MORE?

These pricks get lots of NICE comments.

"GREAT SELLER!"

A lot of bidders on eBay figure if something is on the site, it MUST be LEGIT. Neil Gaman and Georgie R.R. and pudgy E.L. James and activist genius Rowling and big hulking freakish Stephen King must ALL be getting royalties on this shit.

But they're not.

NOT only that, piracy hurts bookstores, libraries, and authors. Oh, maybe not THE KING or the fabulous James Patterson, but it sure hurts the mid-list authors. They're the ones who get told by the publishers, "Sorry, we can't give you a big royalty. Dwindling book sales, you know. Uncertain market, you know. PIRACY, you know."

Know what publishers do about PIRACY? You know? Mostly NOTHING.

Publishers do very well for themselves. At best, they'll hire some Web Sheriff-type company to patrol the blogs and forums and knock off bootlegging of their MOST RECENT TITLES. After a month? Nah, not worth it to pay these people to file DMCA's.

EBAY? They hardly bother at all. Ebay is the easiest place to send a DMCA.

How do I know? I rep more than a dozen famous name friends of mine. I'm friends. I don't charge. It takes me a minute.

And yet when I tell publishers they should hire an intern, or have a "report piracy" link that WORKS, or that I can reduce eBay book piracy by at least 50% and will do it FREE...they refuse. They are in control. With their heads up their asses. Or vaginas.

It angers me. A LOT.

As the author of 19 books, it ANGERS ME.

It's bad enough people are getting more illiterate. It's bad enough that various Gutenberg-type sites give away every public domain book (and plenty that aren't). We need blatant piracy on EBAY?

Ebay says "we're just a venue." They say "Yes, it IS illegal to offer books as downloads BUT...we don't patrol the site. YOU have to tell US."

What they've also told me, privately, is that book piracy is such a low piracy that if you do "REPORT LINK" (there's a hot link in every eBay ad for this) they might not get around to it, because "we have so many auctions, and many involve more serious violations of our rules."

They also give idiots like SANDRO CAMARO warnings, and warnings and warnings. Ebay can be very nice to their sellers, even nickel and dime morons like Camaro:

"We stop the auction and give an electronic warning. Then another. Then another. If the seller does not comply, we may restrict the number of auctions. We may then suspend them for a day. Then a week. Then a month. Then, perhaps, permanently."

Meanwhile the seller and EBAY and PAYPAL share the illegal profits. Heh heh.

THE BOTTOM LINE?

THE BEST WAY TO STOP THIS CRAP IS TO EITHER BE A VERO REP OR ASK ONE FOR HELP.

Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, James Patterson and a few others...if they had a friend or a fan send in a DMCA (you don't need to be a lawyer) the pirates would disappear. A formal DMCA carries weight. It gets sellers suspended faster.

I know this because I've been a VERO rep for 15 years (Verified Rights Owner Rep). Violations on my actress friends, my comedian friends, etc., shrink to almost nothing within a week. Maintenance is a couple of minutes a week or a month after that.

If a big publisher like Doubleday-Dell-Penguin-Birdbrain assigned an intern to handle this, the weasels in Sri Lanka, Albania, Canada etc would run away and never come back.

MY STANDING OFFER is I will rep any author being bootlegged on eBay. FREE.

I do this because it doesn't take a lot of time. Call it my "doing something for charity." My "paying it forward." You name the cliche.

I don't tell people who I rep. No strings are attached to this. The copyright or intellectual property owner is free to choose somebody else any time. No contracts.

All I need is a signed letter (snail mail or email) or authorization. And then: NO MORE PIRACY. Usually a fast suspension for the seller who NEVER comes back. If they try, I have records of who they are and where they are, and they are knocked off again. THEN they don't come back. Ebay and Paypal require a fresh credit card, name and address every time. That also helps.

GET VERO PROTECTION. Be your own VERO rep. OR, use me, as I know all the search tricks. Somebody doesn't put EBOOK in the header, and sneaks the words "download" on the photo and not in the text? I find the illiterate weasel anyway.

If you want my help, just send an email to CYKOTTICK at HOTMAIL.COM. Or contact VERO@EBAY.COM to find out more about the program.

The "wild wild Internet" should not include the easily accessible high profile sales on EBAY. This is where people should buy the actual hardcover book. If not, they can get a REAL download at ITunes or Amazon. Or if they can't afford it, go to the library, where every click of the turnstile helps them help others.

BARNES & NOBLE IN TROUBLE - EBAY & George R. R. Martin NOT HELPING

Today's TRENDING TOPIC ON TWITTER?

Barnes and Noble is in trouble. The kneejerk response is, "Gosh! Gee! Too bad! Will hate to see it go!"

A few have made lame suggestions: "Diversity and sell toys. I got it: sell coffee, like a Starbucks, and have space where people can lounge around and meet each other!" Except there ARE Starbucks all over the place. This is supposed to be a BOOKSTORE.

Can a BOOKSTORE survive in this digital age? Mussolini Bezos kept flogging KINDLE on the front page of AMAZON until millions of morons began buying them. Piracy of digital media doomed Tower Records and Blockbuster Video, and tossing around copyrighted material and photos (called "fair use" by ignorant bloggers) has turned newsstand magazines anorexic and shut down many newspapers. Everything from Penthouse to Christian Science Monitor is "online only, no REAL PRINT edition."

Yes, the digital age may well signal a "new paradigm" in the "trope" of the "zeitgeist," and the "underpinning" of it is that PEOPLE DON'T WANT BOOKS, DVDS or CDS anymore. What doesn't help is: PIRACY and CRAPATHY.

It shouldn't be SO appallingly simple to get a cheap bootleg book download on EBAY of all places.

What you see above is a blatant list of download-bootleg books from an EBAY seller. There are many of them.

People who wouldn't think of stealing a book out of a store, are led to believe EBAY pirates are legit. Why? Because they are on EBAY and one ASSUMES that they wouldn't be there if they were illegal. No, EBAY proudly says "we're just a venue," and are under NO obligation to ask sellers to prove the have written contracts to copy copyrighted work.

Anyone typing in "GEORGE R.R. MARTIN" or "E.L. JAMES" *to mention two well-fed apathetic authors) will instantly notice "EBOOK" or "E Book" or "KINDLE" or "EPUB" next to one of their book titles. Happy to get a download for as low as 80% off the Amazon or iTunes price, and thinking the authors and publishers get royalties, EBAY PATRONS BUY. Only EBAY and the parasites who offer the bootlegs make money. You see why EBAY isn't so dedicated to honesty?

Sadly, CRAPATHETIC book publishers such as Random House-Doubleday-Dell-Penguin aren't asking some low-paid intern to file DMCA's. It takes less than a minute. I do it all the time for myself and various authors and celebrities I know. I can tell you that when enough complaints come in, the seller IS suspended and DOES NOT COME BACK. But...

...the fat cats at the publishing houses, which are owned by diverse corporations, figure they'll always have a job somewhere in the organization. So what if the book division fails. They can sit behind a desk and count some beans.

Book publisher lawyers and publicists etc. are often arrogant. THEY aren't going to waste their time filing DMCA's when they can take a two hour lunch, or watch Internet porn. Some bitch named Andrea, who has some important title at a big publishing house, emailed me a frosty "thanks but no thanks," when I offered to send in DMCA's or do all the work so that an intern would simply have to forward my DMCA to EBAY. Herattitude was: mind your own business. We are aware of the problem...but don't care. This, from the publishing business, which is supposedly full of intelligent, sensitive book lovers.

Fat George Martin and fatter E.L. James could easily assign a fan to be their VERO (Verified Rights Owner) rep on eBay. It doesn't require a lawyer. You can "phone a friend." All eBAY needs is for the copyright owner to write, on letterhead, a note saying "this person is my VERO rep." Then EBAY stops the auctions. But that's too much for George R.R. Martin, E.L. James, and too many other authors and book companies.

"Oh, short-sighted businessmen...nothing lasts forever," sang Joni Mitchell. But you can download that song off a blog, forum or torrent, FREEEEEEEE. And is she making new music? No, she's too pissed off to bother.

Ignorant fat cats will say, "Oh, it's whack-a-mole, it's not worth the trouble." I know they're wrong. Ebay will suspend sellers who keep on bootlegging, and since eBay does require credit cards and ID to sell, it's easy to suspend a new account should a seller try to sneak back.

An irony is that unlike GOOGLE, where YouTube and Blogspot bootleggers flourish, eBay actually has some moral rules. While it's not against GOOGLE rules to offer downloads, it's actually AGAINST eBay rules. If your ad says you are selling DOWNLOADS, the auctions can end. Heh heh...but they have to be reported. That's either by a VeRO rep or by anyone using the obscure "REPORT ITEM" link on every EBAY ad. So why is it that so many eBay sellers, like SANDRO_CAMARO, have been doing just that for years?

Because eBay "is just a venue, and we have millions of new auctions every hour," phone support will tell you. They'll also admit that some low-paid wretch in Utah, Guam or Pakistan might not have enough time to get through the workload of items reported. So, try again.

I've been told by eBay employees that "PIRACY is a LOW PRIORITY." Meaning, their staffers are more likely to quickly end auctions involving drug sales, lock-picking devices, used underwear, etc. Stealing copyrighted work? Meh. Authors should keep their day job. It's nothing to write a book. It's just typing.

Here's an ad from SANDRO_CAMERO, illegally copying a book called..."STICKY FINGERS."

Anyone looking for a new or used copy of Joe's LEGIT BOOK, sees THIS parasite's auction. "Hmm, E-Book...I didn't know you can get a download E-Book on EBAY...wow, and for 75% off what AMAZON or iTUNES charges!"

You notice, maybe, that there's a REPORT ITEM link in the corner of the ad. OK, what happens if you click that link?

You get a confusing pop-up menu to follow.

Now what? Keep going. Go to the menu, scroll down, and down, and down dozens of categories, looking for where you might report this piracy. And, no, FRAUD is not the one. COPYRIGHT? No, try again.

Now what? KEEP GOING...

There. You've gone through all the hoops, because you either don't like parasitic thieves like CAMARO, or you're a fan of the author, and you're sad that the author's book company is not doing anything, and the author is either unaware of the thievery, or busy trying to write and promote and make a living to take a minute to file a DMCA...to help himself, other authors, and BARNES AND NOBLE.

What happens next? Nothing, usually. There's a 50-50 chance the auction might actually be taken down. It depends on how BUSY the employee who received the complaint is. Ebay claims they suspend repeat offenders, but they do NOT state HOW many OFFENSES are needed. It might depend on how much money they are making off the seller, how many auctions the seller runs, or if there's some quota system and employees can't knock off TOO many creeps per week. Ebay is like Scientology...they do not like to discuss anything and their phone support number will get you a polite stooge who will say "Sorry, I can not divulge that information..." no matter what you ask.

And yes, here's MORE of the seller's items for sale...

Well, well, WHAT A SURPRISE...the seller is siphoning off money from obese George R.R. Martin, and whale-like E.L. James.

Martin and James are way too busy eating. Or being on TWITTER. Did they notice what is TRENDING ON TWITTER TODAY? The problems of Barnes & Noble? Meh. These authors are too well fed to care at this point. They surely don't care about their fellow authors either.

Raymond Chandler, in "The Maltese Falcon," had Sam Spade declare it was "BAD FOR BUSINESS" when "one of your own" gets killed. You do something. It's "BAD FOR BUSINESS" when parasites on eBay steal away sales, because when people get books cheap, they do not support the book publishers, who in turn, give even less of an advance to most authors on their list.

The fact that George R.R. Martin and E.L. James are corpulent crapathetic toad-turd traitors to the book business, to bookstores, and to their fellow-authors, is pretty damn sad. Is Rowling or Stephen King doing much either? A few best-selling authors do seem to tell their book publishers: "DO SOMETHING." But not enough.

EBAY is in the Top 5 among retail sites. It should NOT have bootlegs. It's bad enough that so many people know exactly where to go to the secret forum, the torrent, or the GOOGLE blogspot blogs, to get free ePub and Kindle books from entitled assholes who think everything should be free, and they're being Che Guevara or Robin Hood by giving it all away and screaming "Copyright is COPY WRONG" from their hiding place in mommy's basement.

It's bad enough that Google puts "report abuse" on blogs now, but if you go through the hoops, you're told that you must be a copyright owner to report a violation, that they won't bother asking a free blogger if he has permission, and that, if you actually ARE a copyright owner, you might get ignored anyway or told "we don't believe you, send us a copy of your copyright from the copyright office via a lawyer."

Meanwhile, gosh, gee, too bad, R.I.P. if Barnes and Noble goes under. Liked to go there, like I did Toys R Us. But hey, Jeff Bezos' AMAZON has what I need...and so do freebie parasites on the Internet!"

The Fire and Fury of EBAY BOOTLEGGERS

So, the surviving bookstores (Barnes and Noble in Santa Monica just went under) have had a tough time getting "Fire and Fury" in stock?

Well, that's just typical BOOK PUBLISHER stupidity and sloth.

A worse example is how many BOOTLEG DOWNLOADS have been sold on EBAY. HUNDREDS UPON THOUSANDS. Just type in the title, and add EPUB or EBOOK or E BOOK and you get a BARGAIN. Today's BARGAINS:

What does eBay do? They count up their share of the profit. Along with PAYPAL.

If Henry Holt or the AUTHOR of the book actually know enough to contact the VERO program with an email, they also know that this can take all day. Maybe two days. Meanwhile a seller can dispose of DOZENS of copies and KEEP THE MONEY.

The way EBAY operates, the seller isn't even suspended half the time. The seller can easily get another TEN accounts as well, and eBay may not catch on. It would be up to a savvy VERO (Verified Rights Owner) rep to say: "Hey, my client's book has been offered by the same pig in SRI LANKA under 10 names. Here's all the names. Now work with PAYPAL to make sure he never comes back..."

Bootlegging and Piracy are costing LIVES now. It isn't just the author who suffers...the one who got that MILLION DOLLAR advance (don't they all) and who only writes part-time and has a cushy job as a college professor. We're talking about the office workers that the book companies terminate to save money. We're talking about the clerks, the delivery people, the cashiers...the book store people who can't work at a job they LIKE, and must take ANY job in ANY store.

The book publishing world, which is supposed to be run by people smarter than fools who think there's no such thing as climate change, and don't see why there should be birth control, STILL doesn't understand the damage that PIRACY does?

PIRACY needs to be addressed. Torrents must GO. Rogue websites from Russia must be BLOCKED. Google should stop putting hoops in front of rights owners. It should NOT be so damn easy to get a bootleg on a place like EBAY.

SAPRISTI - "WeTransfer" Book Bootlegs - French Weasel is Elon Musk-rat

SAPRISTI!

It's fairly easy to translate the words of the French weasel selling mp3 files of audio books. This prick is saying, in translation, "I am a cheap French baguette, and I use a cheap free "file-sharing" service called WETRANSFER. Yes, I'm too CHEAP to even PAY for a Google Cloud. I float the files I stole off some torrent or hidden forum, and give out the link URL when people win...

"...I make MORE than the authors do in royalties. Authors get MAYBE $2 per book? Zut! Look at ME! And I didn't even WRITE IT. I just stole a copy because it's so easy to copy AUDIOBOOKS and KINDLE and NOOK files now. Magnifique! I make extra money for baguettes, and the authors? Let them eat cake!"

Ebay does not consider copyright theft to be a major issue, so anyone reporting an item like this might not see it stopped for several days, if at all.

The fastest way to handle this is for the authors and publishers to check the site once a week (minimum), type in the title, and such terms as EBOOK, MOBI, KINDLE, etc. and find this junk.

Enough CRAPATHY. The world of writers is supposed to be a smart and moral one. Learn from what happened to the record business and record shops. SAVE BOOKSTORES and LIBRARIES.

It's a LETHAL MISTAKE to think that Musk, Rowling, King, or other best selling authors can absorb piracy and "the business" will still thrive. Parasites like this Paris-site need to be SQUASHED.

Are you an author or a BLIP? On eBAY you're a BLIP and a DRIP and a FOOL'S TOOL

Here's a Brit Twit who has gathered hundreds of books into download files. That's illegal on eBay, but eBay doesn't care very much. Even a "REPORT ITEM" complaint only has a 50-50 chance of getting the auction removed.

Publishers and authors need to get into the game a little more and knock this junk off. To this worthy, an author's output is nothing but a few hundred blips for moneygrubbing some nickels and dimes.

LOVELY. LOVELY.

A lot of eBay sellers know to go to the torrents (which most normal people don't bother with), grab hundreds and hundreds of book files FREE, and then charge for them on eBay, either in compilation form like THIS, or individually.

Aside from Amazon, eBay is THE BIGGEST WEBSITE IN THE WORLD for sales. People coming to eBay to buy books...should BUY BOOKS, actual, real books, not dupes via a download, or burned onto a 25 cent DVD and mailed away.

Due to lax DMCA laws, EBAY isn't obligated to ask a seller like this, "Show us your licensing." They may pay attention to a "REPORT ITEM" complaint from a bidder, but are more likely to remove an item like this if a copyright owner complains. There's PLENTY to complain about with this scavenging swine. He tosses hundreds of books into a cloud, and in this case, lists them:

How many of those titles are still in copyright? With most sellers, at least half are. But the sellers don't give a damn.

An irony is that even if they were public domain, eBay does not permit "digital delivery" because it's so fraught with the potential for abuse.

Sellers often list what's on a disc, figuring there's little risk of authors or publishers seeing and reporting the auction. Some sellers simply declare, "there are SO many books we can't list them all," and that's fine with eBAY. It's not so fine for bookstores, which already face dwindling sales because of Kindle and Nook. It's not so fine for libraries, who are often more of an Internet cafe than a library now, with tables full of computers replacing shelves full of books.

Books are being devalued by being turned into blips that appear on a Nook or a Kindle. AUTHORS should not also be considered BLIPS, to be ignored and ripped off by petty nickel and dime greedheads. Authors are accustomed to working cheap, and to get a few dollars per book as a "royalty." Now, with eBay, those few dollars are going into the pockets of blatant thieves who do nothing but harvest pdf, ePub and mobi files, toss them into a file, and offer them for a low-priced lowdown download.

DANNY BOY - Still a Member on eBay but no longer a Bootlegging Dick

More on account of violations of PAYPAL rules, DANNY BOY is NOT selling his bootlegs.

What was particularly galling about this character, was eBay's apathetic attitude toward his blatant flaunting of their rules. Ebay phone support admitted again and again, "Yes, this is against our Terms of Service" and "Yes, we do not allow digital delivery," and "Yes, the ads all say the items will be sent via email or download, which is not allowed." And did they end the auctions? No.

The excuse? Either it was buck passing ("I will forward this to our team...") or it was a shrug: "We have MILLIONS of auctions on our site, we can't get to all of them." To eBay, piracy against authors, and the parasitic destruction of book stores and libraries doesn't mean much. Even logic doesn't seem to apply, as in: "If Danny Boy sells the ENTIRE Dan Brown collection for a few dollars, hundreds of eBay sellers CAN'T make a sale. People are going to happily get a digital download that's not even the price of ONE used book with shipping."

Another galling aspect was that this seller had a template that looked VERY professional and convincing. Did bidders understand that this guy was bootlegging? That the authors were not being paid? The ads all seemed like he MUST be some big company with licensing agreements. Or something. Fortunately, on October 26th, it finally came to an end. NO MORE of this character.

Happily for DANNY BOY, he doesn't have to return the hundreds of dollars he made. Paypal took their cut. Ebay took their cut. Google hosted the "cloud" service that let bidders download the illegal files.

DANNY BOY would've been knocked off months ago if publishers took their heads out of their asses and did the MINIMUM in protecting themselves and their authors on eBay. This would be to have an intern check eBay once a week.

EBAY is second to AMAZON as the biggest sales site on the Net. People come to eBay looking for new or used books...and should NOT see offers for bootleg downloads. The publishing world is supposedly smarter than the music world, where drugged up cokeheaded idiots allowed mp3 bootlegging to put record stores out of business and make it impossible for many artists, even established ones, to stay on a major label.

Ebay doesn't have people selling mp3 files of the new Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran albums. It's much easier to get the new Ruth Ware or Dan Brown book. Ebay doesn't have people offering every Beatles album via a download link. But Stephen King? DANNY BOY had 72 Stephen King novels available for a mere THREE DOLLARS. It's time to take Ebay bootlegging a lot more seriously. It's offensive, it's insulting and it's dangerous to the future of publishing.