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Originally Posted by HarryT
There was one well-publicised case recently where a spy novel had entire scenes taken from James Bond books, I recall.
EDIT: Here we are, "Assassin of Secrets", by one "Q.R. Markham". A report about it in the UK's Guardian newspaper here.
There was another case a year or so ago where some teenage girl published a book that turned out to have been "lifted" from other sources.
EDIT: This case was one "Kaavya Viswanathan" back in 2006. Wiki article on the subject here. |
I can understand something like that slipping through self published on Amazon or Smashwords, but how did they get past the agents and publishers? Especially the James Bond one, it's not as if those are particularly obscure books.