This Week in Book News: I Don't Have Time to Write

Amar'e Stoudemire, captain of the New York Knicks, has plans to write children's books.  Yep, just like Michael Jordan turning to baseball, Stoudemire is moving from the high pressure world of basketball and into America's favorite past-time: thinking they have a good book idea.  Hell, I'm still trying to get "Banned Library and the Temple of the Monkey Ninja Farmers" off the ground. BET

Daniel McCracken, the guy who literally wrote the first bestselling "How to" computer book, died two weeks ago.  We give an homage to him with this post, as the news has come out much too late for anyone to do anything about whatever problem may or may not have been associated with his death.  Have you tried turning your McCracken off and turning him on again? TheBulletin

Richard North Patterson has released a revised ebook version of his book "The Devil's Light" in the wake of Osama Bin Ladin being killed with the alleged terrorist/bastard now dead.  This marks the first time a published novel has been re-written in ebook form to reflect global news.  This is why you never name anything after a living person, folks.  There is always the possibility they could disgrace themselves and/or die and then where are you?  NYTimes

Amazon is cracking down on people publishing crappy books.  I did not care enough to finish the article.  arstechnica

Learn About Pedophilia in the Amazon

This week in book news: Amazon, the online retail site, came under fire for selling a self published book that gives advice about pedophilia.  

Yep, quality control is in effect!

We here at Banned Library renounce pedophilia and all its forms, but this is kinda funny.  I can only figure that Amazon saw this as some type of satire akin to "Modest Proposal", but the real truth is probably they will let any crackpot with a bit of money sell stuff on their site.  How has Ebay escaped this type of scrutiny?  It also proves all that we have said about self publishers and keeping them far away from your library.  Anyone can self publish, which makes possible our new book, "Banned Library and the Temple of the Monkey Ninja Farmers," available at an Amazon near you.

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