Bastard Man Steals from Library and Sells Items Online

James F Jackson, alleged douchebag

A Glen Ellyn, IL man was charged with the theft of thousands of Lisle Public Library and other area library materials.  James F. Jackson took the books, DVDs and other items, often researching their value before selling them online.   No word on exactly how many materials he took.

Jackson was charged with theft over $300, theft of governmental property, and library theft.  I did not even know that last one was a real crime. "Library theft?"  I thought that was something douchbags, forgetful elderly, and stoned college students did.  Does that mean I can start threatening people with this?  "And if ya don't bring My Little Pony: The Movie back on time, I'm siccing Officer Roscoe on ya, little girl!"

Did ya ever thing you would read an article with a loser fat dude's picture and reference to the My Little Pony movie without feeling really sick inside?  You're welcome.

dailyherald

eBook News That's Fit to ePrint II: Electric Bookaloo

Welcome to another installment of the eBook News.  Sometimes, so much news comes in we just have to shove it all at you at once.  Here we go:

The courts turned down Google's big settlement over digitizing books from the nations libraries.  The federal judge in the case said giving Google the right to continue would exploit copyrights.  Ouch.  I mean, man that had to really hurt.  And I love Google, but man that really had to hurt.  New York Times

Amazon shuts down the eBook lending site cleverly named Lendle.  Citing a concern for their book owners, Amazon got all Mean Joe Greene and blocked their asses.  I just made a sports reference that fit.  Guardian

Best-selling author Barry Eisler turned down a $500,000 contract with a major publisher and instead self publish online.  Yep.  I will never see that kind of money outside of it blowing the hell up in a Michael Bay movie.  techeye

EbscoHost is using the service NetLibrary that it bought from OCLC a while back to give previews of eBooks.  And you thought they were just for peer-reviewed journal articles.  So did I.  Neato.  prweb

And that's it for today.  Sorry I did not take the time to comment on each and every one of them in all the glory that they required, but I did not want to.  I am busy, what can I say?