Those unlicensed works

The world of Print On Demand has continued to generate unlicensed and undesired Peanuts books. If you were carefully searching this past Christmas, you might have found Charlie Brown and the CHRISTMAS COMET That Changed Its Mind (capitalization theirs), a full-color tale. Inside its 32 pages, you get low word-count storytelling and images that are off model to even the casual eye. That book would have set you back a mere $12.99. “But what if I want to get rid of even more money on unlicensed Charlie Brown books??” Fair question. well, if you’ve got two hundred fifty bucks you have nothing better to do with, you can get Charlie Brown’s Christmas Collection for Family! This is written by a guy who uses the name Charlie Brown. Now, he may actually have a good reason for pricing the book so high — he might not actually want you to buy it. Y’see, you can’t use Amazon’s fairly cheap print-on-demand services to print books unless you also offer them for sale, and some of the text with this…