{"id":447,"date":"2008-05-20T16:05:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/thief-in-the-temple\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T16:11:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T23:11:47","slug":"thief-in-the-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/20\/thief-in-the-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Thief In The Temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thief in the CNN mailroom!<\/h2>\n

It appears that the\u00a0CNN\u00a0<\/strong>mailroom has an entrepreneur who, rather than schlep stolen books down to the Strand bookstore for some cold hard cash, is selling them on eBay. This just came in through the Galleycat tipwire:<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/p>\n

This was sent out by\u00a0Brian Sack<\/strong>, author of\u00a0In the Event of My Untimely Demise<\/em>\u00a0via the book’s Facebook page. It’s funny but definitely must be maddening from an author’s standpoint at the same time: “I received an email from someone who bought\u00a0IN THE EVENT OF MY UNTIMELY DEMISE<\/em>\u00a0from a third party vendor on Amazon. He was curious why his new book was signed with a note to a guy named Evan. First I thought I was being pranked. How could someone buy my book on Amazon and receive a copy that I’d personally signed and mailed to Evan, a producer at CNN? Too weird. But I emailed Evan – and he said he’d never received the book. Hmm. We did a little Sherlock Holmesing and came to realize that someone in the\u00a0TimeWarner\/CNN<\/strong>\u00a0mailroom is actually stealing books that arrive in the mail and re-selling them on Amazon. Isn’t that great? They didn’t bother to open the book and notice that I’d signed it to someone. Now Evan’s working hard to find the thief and teach him or her a valuable lesson in sudden occupational reassignment.”<\/em><\/p>\n

This certainly makes a good argument to follow up on books that you send out.<\/p>\n

<\/span>[ click to read blurb at MediaBistro.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Thief in the CNN mailroom! It appears that the\u00a0CNN\u00a0mailroom has an entrepreneur who, rather than schlep stolen books down to the Strand bookstore for some cold hard cash, is selling them on eBay. This just came in through the Galleycat tipwire: This was sent out by\u00a0Brian Sack, author of\u00a0In the Event of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}