Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is one of many knock-off book series that has ridden on the coattails of Diary of a Minecraft Zombie's success. The series is by far the most popular of all of these knock-offs (in some regions, even outselling DoMZ), but has been heavily criticized for being "an utter travesty", "a complete rip-off of DoMZ", and "a huge slap in the face to DoMZ fans". The author Jeff Kinney has been quoted as saying "I don't care that I completely ripped off of Diary of a Minecraft Zombie. I'm making ludicrous sums of money now and Zack Zombie (author of DoMZ) will never see even one penny of that money!" in response to book critics' claims that the series is a knock-off or a clone of DoMZ.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid is successful enough to have spawned its own goofy knock-offs, like Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid, which in addition to being plagued by horrifically low quality illustrations, has the audacity to use many of the characters from Diary of a Wimpy Kid flat out. This makes DoAFK a second-generation knock-off of DoMZ. This really says a lot about the state of children's literature in today's society. 
Please considered sending Zack Zombie some money as he has fallen into financial instability due to prevalance of knock-offs and lack of policing surrounding this issue.