Comments on: Inviting The Adults To The Plagiarism Party https://booksquare.com/inviting-the-adults-to-the-plagiarism-party/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=inviting-the-adults-to-the-plagiarism-party Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:56:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Brenda Coulter https://booksquare.com/inviting-the-adults-to-the-plagiarism-party/#comment-121381 Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:56:51 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/04/28/1935/#comment-121381 It also makes one wonder why in the world a business like Little, Brown would spend a reported $500,000 on an unwritten book by a first-time author who was starting her academic career at a famously tough university.

No, it doesn’t. I believe they paid half a mil to a 17-year-old Harvard student because they thought the buzz over her age coupled with that staggering advance would guarantee the success of any book she might end up writing. The book’s content was never anyone’s priority. All they needed was to be able to market the book as the amazing accomplishment of a 17-year-old writer.

I just blogged about this and linked to you:

Little, Brown and the little girl

]]> By: Kirsten https://booksquare.com/inviting-the-adults-to-the-plagiarism-party/#comment-121373 Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:46:23 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2006/04/28/1935/#comment-121373 Excellent post.

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