This looks like it could be another sign of the times interrupted. With major publishers to compete with all the damned readers, and can be expected to make solid gains, especially in exchange literary equivalent of vaporware.

Penguin decided to recover some of the money they threw a selection of authors and, in one case, a potentially poignant story of love and survival in the concentration camp turned out to be completely fabricated. The Smoking Gun has published the names and the amounts requested by Penguin in trials for "breach of contract / unjust enrichment." Here are a couple of people accused of the list:

Blogger Ana Marie Cox, who signed in 2006 to author a "humorous examination of the new generation of political activists" are dunned for $ 81.250 in advance (and at least $ 50,000 in interest.) Penguin His contract totaled $ 325,000.

survivor of the Herman Rosenblat Holocaust was signed for $ 40,000 in 2008 to describe how he "survived a concentration camp because of a girl who sneaks food. 17 years later, the two met on a blind date and have been together ever since, married for 50 years. "While the story Rosenblat was hailed by Oprah Winfrey as" the greatest love story unique "she said on the air, which turned out to be a hoax. Penguin wants to be paid an advance of 30,000 $ (and at least $ 10,000 in interest).

ten authors were appointed more like "Prozac Nation" author Elizabeth Wurtzel, who could not offer a "book for adolescents to help cope with depression. " The total amount, including interest, amounted to more than a million and a half dollars. The authors do not print something (or nothing) to publishers is not new, but a shot of judicial opinion against the perpetrators is a bit novel. (Oh, ho! A pun book.) Would tempting to call it a new "source of income", but only the interest would be "new" money.


theories about possible ulterior motives or through devious Penguin progresses (and other word game! Completely unintentional!). Wire comments The Smoking Gun, Trident Media Group President Robert Gottlieb speculates (strongly) that the treatment of perpetrators Penguin is false, at best:


authors beware. The books are rejected for other reasons, then write and publishers want their money back. Publishers want to reject manuscripts for any reason after the author spent a lot of time and effort to write all the time to pay their bills. Another reason to have a strong representation. If penguins did this to one of the authors of Trident could reduce our communications


another possible angle is proposed by the literary blogger Edward Champion.: regarding age discrimination lawsuit filed earlier this month against the penguin by Marilyn Duckworth, who claims the editor forced to quit after 27 years of service sue employees who were "faster, stronger and more agile."
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