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Publisher Cancels Book Deal With Harvard PlagiaristPosted on May 2, 2006
In the wake of even more plagiarism allegations against the Ivy League sophomore, publisher Little, Brown and Co. has canceled her $500,000 two-book deal and permanently pulled copies of her book from store shelves.
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By Nene Dakai, May 4, 2006 at 3:45 am Link to this comment
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I don’t get it. Who in the world has the time to read these kinds of books that closely? I am afraid for these people and for the rest of the world. The only person who plausibly could have must have been the original writer, who then must have used proxies to get the word out. It’s probably a convention of “chick lit” that authors must always be nice or risk a marketing backlash.
Report thisBy Ed Rush, May 2, 2006 at 6:37 pm Link to this comment
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Poor woman. To suffer this kind of humiliation at her age may ruin her for life. She acted like an idiot, of course, but why the hell didn’t her publishers twig before they laid that huge amount of cash on such a young kid? They are partly responsible, and it would be nice to see them accept some of this responsibility instead of backpedalling at a velocity which would put them into earth orbit.
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