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Another Fake Hits Publishing Industry

Books – Two years after the fall of James Frey, a publisher has again been conned by a memoirist with a life that proved too bad to be true.

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She has a bright future at the NY Times.

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Maybe she could have Judith Miller's old desk?

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THIS made the news as opposed to Jane Daniels' story about holocaust lies, living with wolves, and searching for her jewish parents, who weren't jewish.

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2008/03...

They even made a movie about her story in France.

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Publishers don't hire the right people to work as editors. What they need is people who have a VERY broad range of both knowledge and experience, and a built-in ****** detector. Instead, they frequently hire people who are socially well-connected.

It's pathetic.

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considering the amount of content submitted to agents and publishers on a daily basis, fact checking of the sort required here (where the author submitted fraudulent supportive documents) is impossible. the cost of doing so would be so exorbitant that book which now costs $20 would cost $80 to produce (for example).

further, when you consider the amount of material published as non-fiction vs the amount revealed as fraudulent, some credit has to be given to the publishers for their ability to weed out crap (a great majority of submissions never make the shelves)

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Do these big publishing houses not have fact checkers?

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Awww, I read the tag and thought this was about Al Gore's book...

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