{"id":2456,"date":"2009-01-09T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:24:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:24:26","slug":"will-mike-gonzo-books-still-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2009\/01\/09\/will-mike-gonzo-books-still-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the Mike Gonzo Books Still be Available?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Publisher’s Weekly article on the\u00a0Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act<\/a> and thinking about the ramifications. Just how likely is it that all children’s books have been banned as a side affect of a well-meaning product safety law? My own titles have been targeted to “Ages 12 and up” so I might be affected as well. Will all the books I have sitting on bookstore shelves be trashed come February to protect the store owner from ruinous law suits? Probably I should start the process of changing that little marketing blurb to “Ages 13 and up” just to be sure.<\/p>\n

But what about real children’s books? How many lawyers out there are advising their clients to play it safe and get rid of all those un-certified books?<\/p>\n

This could be a bigger impact on book selling than the Thor ruling, unless something happens soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was reading the Publisher’s Weekly article on the\u00a0Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and thinking about the ramifications. Just how likely is it that all children’s books have been banned as a side affect of a well-meaning product safety law? My own titles have been targeted to “Ages 12 and up” so I might be… Continue reading Will the Mike Gonzo Books Still be Available?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[317,318,319],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-DC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}