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(Kudos to theNew YorkPostfor delivering on that one.)
I am both exhausted and giddy.
Can we do this every week, publishing industry?
Ripley, Believe It or Not.
Monday morning treated us toIan Parkers downhill-snowball of a storyinTheNew Yorkerabout Dan Mallory (pen name A.J.
But nope: The paperback is still coming out in March and Mallorys second novel is on its way.
Next time, Dan, we want interpretive dancers.
Why, Jill, Why?
Finished copies corrected many of the errors and the news cycle stumbled on.
Barely 24 hours later, Vice correspondentMichael Moynihan pointed outa long string ofpotentially plagiarized portionsinMerchants of Truth.
First Abramsonstaunchly denied it, saying she was 100% confident in the accuracy of her work.
Now she says shell fix the stolen bits.
Instead of taking the bait, Bezos posted the receipts (well, notallthe receipts).
The weirdest bit of all of it?
The email that Bezos posted was sent by Jon Fine, theNational Enquirers deputy general Counsel.
Fines job there was reportedly to [try] to get publishers to hate Amazon less.
Now hes helping theNational Enquirertry to shut Bezos down for sending nudez.
Well wait right here for the details.
Although Ive gotta say Im with Damien Owens on this one.
I don’t want to see a picture of Jeff Bezos’s dick, thank you very much.
I’m perfectly happy with dick pics from my local independent bookseller.
Blind item!
(She thought so; he did not.)
Reader, I stood and fled.
Okay, maybe this one is more of a complementary dessert at the end of a very rich meal.
I couldnt handle another bite, but Monday, Im ready for whatever you may bring.
