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Originally Posted by HarryT
In at least one case - that of the "celebrity autobiography" - ghostwriters are commonly used because the nominal "author" has neither the inclination nor the ability to write a decent book. The book would not exist at all were it not "ghostwritten"; we can leave to another day the question as to whether or not this would be a good thing, but I think that the book buying public is well aware that when they buy the autobiography of some sport's star (or whoever) it was almost certainly not penned by its nomimal "author".
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Yes, the fact that everyone does it and should be assumed knowledge to all is an excellent defense. Not!
