Children's Literature

We at PACE are compelled to make the public and governing powers aware that the injustices antitrust laws were created to safeguard against, and or laws alike, are casually overlooked by a standard that is seemingly invisible. Liability regarding this affair needs to be evident in the world of book publishing and its surrounding interests. This unjust practice, nexus between industry leaders, prominent, and influential publishers, and book reviewers has flattened competition by restraining commerce in this industry and has created a monopoly.

The overview of the issue: Prominent book reviewers, and as many influential reviewers we could find, do not review CD-ROM e-books. The material they review, guides many purchasing sources, and the public. Aside from the handicap, this discrimination provides for electronic book publishers locked out of the publishing loop, the affects from this problem are further reaching. Even though there is useful interactive activity software for children available. We would just like to think book reviewers, are lovers of literature, and would want our children to experience a fun storybook in this media. Perhaps I should reevaluate my thinking, maybe they do.

Book Reviews will review books on cassette, book-and-cassette packages, and any other CD-ROM audio or video materials. We cannot figure out how this even qualifies as literature. However, if you have an audio option in a book, joined with readable text and illustrations, a virtual book, an e-book, these electronic books reviewers refuse to review. Meanwhile, reviewers rave about the digital book conversion that libraries have implemented and have even given awards to some.

Publishers Weekly has their Virtual Edition.
Publishers Weekly's new electronic edition that looks just like our print editions.

Well, the quintessential book reviewer Publishers Weekly thinks their electronic books are good, as stated in the above is a quote, caption included posted on the US ISBN Agency Bowker website, and on their own. They sound excited about them, why will they not review and boast about our childrens electronic editions.

If we had created, Harry Potter and published this work as an e-book, this project more than likely would have never seen the light of day. Unfortunately, you can have a very beneficial e-book for the public to enjoy, possibly a best seller, but when no one in the mainstream will accept this literature for review, who will know of its worth. How will it be in the thoughts of consumers to purchase? The blocking of one type of book, limits public choice and maintains a spotlight on other book types, and creates the monopoly in this industry. The results leave most of the public seeking to purchase activities/games, rather than the alternative media literature for children when shopping for computer software. Abandoning the public and leaving parents to choose e-books for their children blindly without a qualified review, is comparatively rare over this at best. Little did we know when we started our company, that its effort would be suppressed by the literary world it is trying to contribute.

Fun CD-ROM activities/games for children are enthusiastically promoted by publishing industry leaders; however, our storybook endeavor that remains firm in basics, with all the enhanced fun play our times have to offer, are obscured.

Our mission: is to bring to light this technologically enhanced literature to the new world of education, constructive fun, our children face. Interactive material joined with literature is what we should want to be one of the first experiences children have with a computer. Let us not forget about that foremost educational basic, reading, and how hard it has been to instill in children even before all the added distraction of being introduced to activates/games as the fundamental use of a computer as many are today in their early years.

Antitrust laws, or competition laws, are laws that prohibit anti-competitive behavior (monopoly) and unfair business practices. The laws make illegal certain practices deemed to hurt businesses or consumers or both, or generally to violate standards of ethical behavior. Government agencies known as competition regulators regulate antitrust laws, and may also be responsible for regulating related laws dealing with consumer protection.

We demand senators, and legislative authorities to support this petition. To enforce or seek a remedy to this unbalance in our commerce, antitrust laws, that this country originally found reason to emplace, and to penalize book reviewers that do not afford equal opportunities for reviewing electronic books, e-books. Even in the event, this boycott of reviewing e-books cannot attach itself to antitrust law, or become a matter afforded by existing conventional law, new law must be created. Weather the occurrence of this mass situation made possible by book reviewers, was caused by individual alliances maintained with traditional book publishers, or just a peculiar prejudice that everyone in the country is bizarrely afflicted, this unethical stand, practice adopted, not to review e-books was undoubtedly realized by each other, if not through each other. Book reviewers wheedling the deciding axe from their thrown of which group shall prevail. This one-sided choice being unified becomes a sentence that influences what type of books the public is familiar, directed towards with their approval to experience. Disallowing review is an abuse of power, and is an intentional disregard directed towards the welfare of business and public choice.

Even in the event, this is no more than a mass coincidence. Either way this occurrence is perceived when examining the issue with any consideration for which the antitrust act was created such reasoning alone should stand to amend the act, or to create new law. To include this collective neglect between reviewers, since the overall results derived from such neglect ultimately does effect economic growth and competition, and causes harm to consumers. When one thing has such a huge control over a particular type of industry, and everyone that does that one thing decides not to do it for one specific group of people in that industry and the results from this nation wide phenomena is holding the same damaging results as any other matter concerning antitrust. An amendment to fit this problem into its scope of protection must prevail. This petition must spearhead change, and cause lawmakers to respond and amend antitrust law if for any reason this injustice does not in fact already fit, to include and resolve this matter. The damages from this collective refusal to review e-books are the embodiment of the antitrust act itself.

This mission undertaken by book reviewers, the blocking of e-books in our new media is obstructing trade, and the controlling force holding the rains of which group prevails in book publishing. This disregard is enabling long existing publishers to maintain a high level of superiority in the book publishing industry. This design by reviewers to discriminate, controls public choice, and suppresses business in our nation. Blocking the equal chance for a qualified review by recognized reviewers is an unfair restraint of commerce. This irresponsible disservice to the public is harming competition by diminishing the exposure and worth of this media marketed by private enterprise, obscuring the validity of us, is hindering our presents, averting public awareness, must end. Reviewers are stating to the world with its intentional suppression, that individual companies producing literature in this media are not worthy of consideration, holding us outside of the publishing game. How can electronic book publishers compete in commerce?