And the Publishers Who Give the Parasites a Shelf to Stand On
The real crooks are those who plagiarise and cannibalise good stuff to make rubbish. J.K.Rowling is in court this week, trying to block the publication of a Harry Potter lexicon, which she claims has lifted huge chunks of her work wholesale.
RDR, the publishers of the lexicon, have described it as a “David and Goliath battle”, which would be an accurate metaphor if, instead of smacking Goliath on the kisser with a slingshot, David had rather gone through Goliath’s collected fiction, whacked some choice paragraphs into an order of his choosing, put his own name on the cover, and then tried to make a quick buck off someone else’s work.
When you think that J.K.Rowling has sat silently through the publication of endless Barry Trotter and the Loss of the Will to Live books, the fact that she’s waited this long to see someone in court makes her appear positively saintly. …
The writers and publishers of this rubbish can kid themselves that they are providing a public service and that their books and the bestsellers can live symbiotically. But the truth is that they are parasites living on hosts, clogging up the shelves so that original and interesting books don’t have a chance. I hope Goliath takes them all to the cleaners.
Yes! Yes!!
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