A Judy Henske Bio? NOT. Thanks to MORONS, More on Publishing's Decline...

You might type in the name of a singer, actor or sports star...

And momentarily think you've just found a brand new well-researched bio to read.

Look what I found on EBAY...

Didn't know there was a good bio on Judy Henske!

Guess what.

There isn't.

It's just...

Some stupid shit.

An idiot SCAM.

ANOTHER NAIL IN THE PUBLISHING WORLD COFFIN.

LOOK AT THIS...SHIT...

Thanks to "print on demand," it's now easy for any fart-brain to download whatever he "thinks" is public domain, and assemble it into a "book." More of a scrapbook. Or, he uses a program to badly turn all the articles into one typeface loaded with typos. Whatever. The eBay ad admits that all this thing is, is whatever the prick stole off the Internet...and thanks to Google, this is bound to include entire copyrighted magazine articles that technically require permission for any duplication.

But what the fuck, the average asshole has learned, via blogs, forums and websites, that anything can be taken "for review and educational purposes" or sold "collector to collector no rights implied," or used with some simple caveat of "I don't claim to own the rights so it's OK to give it away" or it's "fair use" because, uh, uh, because...well, make up your own lame excuse.

In this case, the author would probably be saying she's giving credit to her sources by re-printing the entire articles. That'll do, pig, right?

The real reason this bitch even thinks of pulling such a stunt is that the original writers aren't likely to take the time to chase her down and turn her upside down and shake some dollars out of her pockets for her theft.

So the consumer's time is wasted on this clutter of "print on demand" garbage, and monkeys who see this stuff and think somebody might actually pay $40 or $50 or $80 to get a rare book for their collection...add to the garbage load by finding singers, stars and topics they can Wiki-steal and turn into bogus books!

Now add the even worse problem of eBooks!

It's even easier to download crap and upload it as an eBook in pdf format...and have it turn up on Amazon

Yes, good old Amazon, the insane place that SEEMED like the publisher's friend, the author's friend, the place where book lovers could instantly go to buy a mail order book.

Except Amazon began to insidiously offer people the lowest possible price on a used copy rather than sell the discounted new one. And then they invented the Kindle. And then they pushed eBooks for chump change. And now almost nobody can make money writing eBooks and bookstores are going out of business and piracy is helping to destroy the publishing world completely.

Ten years ago, there were small publishers, quick and dedicated writers, and yes, you COULD go to a store and get a pleasant surprise. You could buy a bio of most any singer who put out some albums, or TV star with a cult show. It might not be 400 pages and exhaustively researched, but it was well-written, fact-checked, and gave you a decent read. When Roy Orbison died, for example, two books on him came out almost instantly, and they weren't bad. Now? Now it would be left to inane drones and brain-dead maggots to cobble together whatever is on line and try to get chump change with a "print on demand" or an eBook.

And since anyone literate knows how to do it for themselves...well...that's why THE PUBLISHING WORLD IS FUCKED.

About all you can hope for is celebrities who have the time to write an autobiography, pay a smidge for a professional editor or co-writer, and have a loyal fan base via a website so they can dispose of 100 or 1000 copies (charging more for an autographed copy). In this scenario, the artist and the fan come together, at least. But it doesn't change the basic fact...

THE PUBLISHING WORLD IS FUCKED.