Dell Trade Paperbacks has severely lowered its standards.

Reeling from Howard Stern's best-selling, record-breaking success for bookbinding foe Simon and Schuster with Private Parts, DTP has allowed desktop publishing to get out of hand with Sternmania.

In the quest to cash in on Stern's skyrocketing market potential, 300 of the most obscure and meaningless trivia questions have been compiled about Stern's and his cohorts' illustrious careers.

This cheaply produced paperback is essentially a bunch of stupid questions in different fonts about insignificant events about Stern and his show.

Does anyone really want to pay $7.99 to find out on which magazine cover Howard wore a full-length leather jacket? Even the sick and obsessed author's cheesy pseudonym (Ray D. O'Fan) smells of rip-off.

Pointless black-and-white photos complement trivia as asinine as revealing who claimed he would eat a dead dog's penis if Stern beat him in the ratings. Sternmania is yet another chapter -- hopefully a short one -- in the never-ending saga of corporate copycats' greed.

Don't fall for the "totally unauthorized and uncensored" spiel Sternmania pulls -- if you're interested in Howard Stern, just buy his own book, Private Parts. If you're this curious about Stern, you have a serious problem.