AOL's Book Maven

We knew this was coming. No matter how often Alibris or eBay try and remove listings, there will be someone out there who has an ill-gotten copy of that illness-inducing manuscript 'If I Did It' by O.J. Simpson from ReganBooks. (Oops, make that once of ReganBooks... )

From the News article: "Catherine England, eBay spokeswoman, cited policies aimed at offensive items and 'murderabilia.'

'Out of respect for murder victims, eBay may remove items closely associated with murder cases dating over the last 100 years,' she says. 'We reached out to the publisher who holds the copyright; they said they did not intend to distribute this book.'"

About 400,000 copies were printed by HarperCollins, and that publisher says the books are its property and "we haven't sued anyone yet but reserve the right to do so."

What an egregious mess. Now, your Book Maven does not approve of book burning, or turning books into censored items -- so my opinion is that once sold, it's the buyer's responsibility. But HarperCollins, where are these thousands of copies? If they were not for sale and the book deal was cancelled and you are not officially publishing the volume, can't something be done? Hmmmm... "If The Publisher Did It," might we all not be better off immediately?

IMHO, here's what should happen to the books, with a nod to my editor colleague Dan Kulpinski, of 'Down to Earth' on AOL Journals.
 

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• #12 Comment from tom3121
  10/26/07 12:09 PM | Permalink

  Look, you had to know this was coming it all about the money. Before you know it ity will be all over the net.
  
  
  
  
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  1/26/07 9:37 AM | Permalink

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