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Literary Plagiarism Revisited
Apr. 28th, 2006 08:22 pmhttp://my.ev1.net/english/news/newsarticle.asp?articleID=50258751&subject=entertainment
One of the things that irritates me the most about this is, why in heavens' name didn't this young woman write her own book, using the tropes of a transition family from India? I can see the owner of my favorite Indian restaurant coming up with a plan to Get His Granddaughter A Life -- it's pure culture.
Instead, she not only mimicked books from her teen years, she apparently borrowed entire passages wholesale.
And some editor paid her six figures to do this? Do you realize how many books a novel in this price range has to sell for the publisher to make any money at all?
I certainly hope that that editor is around when *I* release my next manuscript to the NYC Wars.
One of the things that irritates me the most about this is, why in heavens' name didn't this young woman write her own book, using the tropes of a transition family from India? I can see the owner of my favorite Indian restaurant coming up with a plan to Get His Granddaughter A Life -- it's pure culture.
Instead, she not only mimicked books from her teen years, she apparently borrowed entire passages wholesale.
And some editor paid her six figures to do this? Do you realize how many books a novel in this price range has to sell for the publisher to make any money at all?
I certainly hope that that editor is around when *I* release my next manuscript to the NYC Wars.
