The Saga of Katie.com

Posted by michael on Thursday August 5, 2004 @01:19AM from the make-it-a-porn-site dept.

digitalcaffeine writes "The gist of the story is that Katie Tarbox became a victim of an online sexual predator when she was 13. She wrote a book about it in 2000 and Penguin Putnam made the title of the book 'Katie.Com', which unfortunately was a domain name owned by Katie Jones since 1996. Now Tarbox's lawyer is demanding that Jones turn over the domain name. Penguin refuses to apologize, saying that it would be a violation of their free speech to re-title the book and that Jones never trademarked katie.com, so they can do what they want with the words."

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Review it on Amazon by cecirdr · 2004-08-05 03:19 · Score: 1, Redundant

How about either giving the book highly negative reviews on amazon, or in the review, state the situation clearly for all possible buyers of the book. Most people would be appalled at Penguin's bullying tactics and be happy to boycott the book. Sales would slump miserably (at least through amazon) and the publisher might actually get a clue that they should change the title.