KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life - Lori Jareo, the world's stupidest human

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			KRAD's Inaccurate Guide to Life - Lori Jareo, the world's stupidest human ramblings from a mad fedora'd writer

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	Lori Jareo, the world's stupidest human
	Lori Jareo is someone I never heard of until a couple of days ago, but she's managed to make quite an impression as an incredibly stupid person. She wrote a bit of Star Wars fanfic called Another Hope. That would be fine, except Ms. Jareo runs a small print-on-demand press called Wordtech Communications, through which she mostly publishes poetry, and she decided to print Another Hope and make it available through Ingram, which distributes through Amazon.com and BN.com. Yes, that's right, she published her fanfic and is charging money for it. Ms. Jareo had an interview up on her web site. I use the past tense because LucasFilm Limited has shut down Ms. Jareo's web site. Ingram is no longer carrying the book. It's still listed on Amazon, though I doubt any orders will be fulfilled at this point. In any case, thanks to the good and noble Lee Goldberg, co-founder of the IAMTW, the most entertaining part of the interview has been preserved: Q: Having set Another Hope in an already existing universe, I find myself wondering if there was any concern on your part regarding copyrights? No, because I wrote this book for myself. This is a self-published story and is not a commercial book. Yes, it is for sale on Amazon, but only my family, friends and acquaintances know it’s there. Q: I also wonder how far a writer is allowed to write in a world and to use characters introduced by another author? If it’s not a commercial project, I don’t see any problem. Hey! Dipshit! You're selling it for money! Know what that means? IT IS A COMMERCIAL PROJECT! Ms. Jareo has a background in journalism, so it's amazing to me that she managed to miss, well, everything about copyright law. Some are worried about the effect this might have on fanfic writers, but I think it'll have a much more profound impact on POD publishers. Ingram took this because it was from a publisher they assumed to be legit, so they didn't examine it. Now, they're really going to have to, if they want to avoid The Wrath Of LucasFilm Limited. snerk Oh, and Karen Traviss has immortalized Ms. Jareo in Star Wars fiction, bless her evil little heart. Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: still Mammoth

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	From: rainfletcher	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:03 am (UTC)		(Link)

Yeah, I heard about this yobbo over on

metaquotes, and it produced a mighty "HUH?!" from all, followed by a series of riffs along the lines of "I find her lack of brains disturbing."

I mean... gosh. How thick is that?

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	From: suricattus	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:07 am (UTC)		(Link)

My favorite comment is still "is yoda gonna have to smack a bitch?"

*eye roll*

I've been giving this icon a workout today, I fear...

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	From: machineplay	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:35 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'm still stuck on the fact that she replaced the 'Imperial Navy' with the 'Star Fleet'.

Oh, and the interview and other pages regarding the APOCRYPHAL novel are still available through Google's cache.

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	From: atimson	Date: April 23rd, 2006 07:07 pm (UTC)		(Link)

In the movies (or, at least, ANH--I don't remember for sure about ESB/ROTJ) "Imperial Navy" and "Imperial Starfleet" are both used. :)

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From: jafinnola	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:39 am (UTC)		(Link)

Stupid is as stupid does.

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	From: mruppercut	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:42 am (UTC)		(Link)

I self publish with Lulu.com and they have a 'no fanfics' policy because of copyright issues.

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	From: marinarusalka	Date: April 23rd, 2006 04:05 am (UTC)		(Link)

I'm totally amazed that someone with a publishing background could be that stupid. I can see some teenybopper on ff.net making a mistake like that out of sheer ignorance on how the world works, but this woman? No excuse.

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	From: allaboutm_e	Date: April 23rd, 2006 02:41 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Some are worried about the effect this might have on fanfic writers, but I think it'll have a much more profound impact on POD publishers. Ingram took this because it was from a publisher they assumed to be legit, so they didn't examine it. Now, they're really going to have to, if they want to avoid The Wrath Of LucasFilm Limited. *snerk*

I think the publishing industry needs to expand its terms. There's nothing inherently wrong with something Printed On Demand ... POD. It's just a process, and is used for many legitimate purposes.

The trouble, IMO, is that there's no more specific term for the actual problem products, SPOD and VPOD, or Self-"Published" On Demand (like this piece of intellectual property theft) or Vanity "Published" On Demand, like the poetry books published by Ms. Jareo's company.

Just my $.02.

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	From: allaboutm_e	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:09 pm (UTC)		(Link)

And that's not to say that all SPOD work is not of the good either ... just most of what I've encountered, and more so in the world of fiction than the world of illustrated narrative.

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	From: jaylake	Date: April 23rd, 2006 03:02 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Speaking as someone who does a lot of (highly legitimate) work with POD publishers, if Ms. Jareo succeeds in putting the brakes on the whole LightningSource/Ingram thing, I'm going to...

I don't know. But cheeses price. It really only takes one moron, doesn't it?

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From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 25th, 2006 02:56 am (UTC)		(Link)

Hey Lori,

You're a crazy bitch,
and you write so bad on top of that.
Now that Lucas
has shut your website down,
here's hopin' this'll serve
to keep you from writin' on.

-- Dayton

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From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 25th, 2006 07:43 pm (UTC)		(Link)

There is a link here to the full interview where she makes an ass of herself! Classic!

http://www.sci-fi-online.50megs.com/News/06-04-25_SWHope.htm

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From: teemonster	Date: April 27th, 2006 12:35 am (UTC)		(Link)
The things you miss while at a con...

WOW! I feel so behind the times...

I was busy with a few other LiveJounalists at RavenCon 2006 in Richmond, VA, and all this went down on Day One of the con. I found out about it on midnight, Monday. While I'm behind the times, I did manage to make this incident the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot moment in my podcast. I did manage to podcast it and even order a copy (as I really wanted the ability to hold true stupidity in my hands!)...only to have my order cancelled today. (Bummer...she's going to need every penny for her legal fees. *LOL*) The Amazon page went bye-bye. Amazing it remained up there for this long.

Meanwhile, she is still listing this title in her bio for the writer's conference...and she's still a guest, too. You would think the conference's host would tell her "Thank you for your interest, but..."

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From: (Anonymous)	Date: June 7th, 2007 12:32 am (UTC)		(Link)
What School?

Assuming she actually has a degree from a "real" University (not the kind you get spam from every day), I'd love to know which institution. If her ethics professor gave her a passing grade, he should be fired.

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