As if bogus signatures aren't a big enough problem already...

The Guardian has published a short article on a currently unnamed publishing house that is actively seeking 14 people able and willing to forge the signatures of a soon to be published book. For this service, they will be paid $25 per 200 books signed. According to the ad, the project will run for two, eight hour days...based on those numbers, this could mean as many as 53,000 or so "signed" books. I guess it undermines the ebay fraudsters...

It used to be that you could at least count on publisher's signed copies to be legit...oh well.