Happy New Year for Scholastic R.L. Stine Bootlegging. Heil Goosestepping over Goosebumps

Amazing. 2016, and some publishers are sending the message: "We are SO rich, we are SO busy with our $200 power lunches and standing in line at Starbucks, we won't even have an unpaid intern spend 2 minutes a week keeping our best sellers safe."

Today, FOUR different book-Nazis are stealing Stine's books. It would literally take 2 minutes to stop this farce.

An educational book company? Scholastic? WHAT are you telling the children? That it's OK to steal?

Aren't the self-entitled Millennials seeing enough of that when they sneak over to the torrents and Internet forums and see copyrighted material thrown all over YouTube?

THIS helps?

I mentioned this situation in a few previous posts. It's gotten worse. Instead of two parasites, there are now four.

The price for the Goosebumps set drops every week, while bidders cheer, "Thanks, what a bargain! My kids love this stuff!"

The problem is not whether Stine, Scholastic or his "Parachute Press" are losing a few hundred dollars a week. It's that people are losing respect for copyright, and that other authors and publishers are suffering too. The more people steal, the less they buy. The more people can get from eBay bootleggers, the less reason they have for browsing a bookstore or a library.

Frankly, I'd like to think that authors and publishers are not as stupid as the rock industry, and that instead of seeing record stores go under like the music biz did, the authors and publishers will fight to preserve the bookstores that are left, and the libraries that buy and support all authors, not just best-selling short-sighted twits.