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Originally Posted by LadyKate
Has anyone ran across this before?
I was asked by a friend if I had read Last Chance to See (by Mark Carwardine). I had read the Ballantine Books version and said yes I had. (note: I edited to remove by Douglas Adams as I had mentally though that when she asked) [...]
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I have a hardback copy of "Last Chance To See..." (published by William Heinemann Ltd in 1990). The cover says: Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine. Inside the copyright notice says: Serious Productions Limited and Mark Carwardine 1990. (Serious Productions Limited appears to be a Douglas Adams entity, it's also used on my copy of "Mostly Harmless".) The dust jacket acknowledges both Adams and Carwardine as photographers.
... All that aside, I do think it is rather cheating to publish a subsequent book and deliberately make it look like it's the earlier one. But publishers tend not to be shy about that sort of thing. Come to that, neither is Stephen Fry.