Okay, that is too funny for words.

I'm familiar with both author's positiobs, I also know both were best selling authors prior to piracy, so their blues aren't like mine, so to speak. I know that for those of us who measure our sales by the hundreds rather than hundreds of thousands have been egregiously impacted. I know that small publishers, many of them women owned have been driven out of the business. This is not Prohibition tactics, unless you think it's okay to walk out of a store without paying this is nothing new. The notion that someone is entitled to steal my work just because they can is both wrong headed and immoral. Pirate sites profit from advertising. They pay bounties to uploaders who've done nothing but steal. How is that different from fencing a product. We can wrapit up in all manner of high sounding rhetoric, but a thief's a thief.

I can't like the pirate sites as they also host people who upload my books for thousands to download for free.

It's not a Barbie. It's some collector fashion doll meant for the collector market. They retail at $150+. I think they're supposed to be models.

Martha Stewart has some recipes like that. I love her to death, but sometimes her recipes make me wonder if I'm baking a cake or building an atomic bomb.