I'm not sure she's been threatened with legal action (yet), because the publisher and third parties (journalists etc.) pretend to think there was nothing wrong with what she did. We'll see how it goes.
Sadly, you're right. Though I'm not quite sure about the timeline in this case: his book was published last summer, it's possible that he's been publishing excerpts when the process was already underway. He was published by a small independent publishing house, she by a large publishing corporation.
I think the situation proves a third thing: it's not the quality of the text that makes a bestseller, but the PR budget of the publishing house.
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Date: 2010-02-10 06:39 pm (UTC)Sadly, you're right. Though I'm not quite sure about the timeline in this case: his book was published last summer, it's possible that he's been publishing excerpts when the process was already underway. He was published by a small independent publishing house, she by a large publishing corporation.
I think the situation proves a third thing: it's not the quality of the text that makes a bestseller, but the PR budget of the publishing house.