Possession of stolen books - an example

[Tim May]

At 12:47 PM -0600 1/10/01, Jim Choate wrote:
>Blueheart
>Alison Sinclair
>Harper Science Fiction
>ISBN 0-06-105820-3
>$6.50 US
>
>I quote from the 'fly' (or whatever it's called), the facing page to the
>first page of chapter 1.
>
>"If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this
>book is stolen property."
>
>They've been doing this for at least 20 years.

And incorrectly. Calling something stolen doesn't make it so. I could 
tear the cover off a book I own and then sell it to Alice.

Publishers resort to FUD the same way TLAs do.


Be sure to notify my local Sheriff's Office, in Santa Cruz County, 
that I am committing a crime.


Nitwit.


--Tim May
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