NEW YORK, NY - Today, Government officials closed down every second hand bookstore and charity store for selling copyrighted products without the author's or publisher's permission.

And just when you think it is okay to get your books from the library as well, they have also all been shut down for giving the books away to many many people without paying royalties each time the book is taken out.

They have also shut down the second hand book operation of Amazon. And eBay has been given 24 hours to close any and all auctions relating to books - be they collectors books or not.

And they have their sites aimed to hit the garage sales next weekend.

But their madness doesn't end there.

They have also began closing down Doctor's surgeries because of the magazines freely available for reading in the waiting room. Unless the surgeries can come up with back royalties, they will not be allowed to open again.

And on the horizon: work place lunch rooms and book clubs. "We are aware of the rampant book sharing that goes on in these places. And these people are depriving the authors of their rightful royalties each time a book is passed around."

And once these "operations" have been closed, they will be moving on to the auction houses to make sure no books are sold there either.

Film at 11.

HA!

:o)

Michael Ross.