Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books

[Raidho]

Has anyone seen the the Cassie Edwards thing on Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books ?

I was turned onto this site by a Prof doing a presentation on plagiarism.

Apparently, Cassie Edwards got a lot of her "research" from works falling under "Fair Use" laws. A lot of this "research" includes verbatim phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. It's clear plagiarism.

There's example after example of her "borrowing."

But what Signet said, I think, is far worse: Signet's Response.

Signet publishes a lot of textbooks, in addition to other stuff (such as shitty trash books). A producer of TEXTBOOKS thinks she "had done nothing wrong."

Edited to add: There's a lot of stuff on the right hand side from the home page. This isn't a single occurrence, but a pretty huge thing.

Any thoughts?

 

[BoringAdonis]

I would recommend they spend more time reading the Bible.

 

[~His Kitten~]

I'd like to go on the record for saying that I've never liked Edwards books. Ever. I read one and it bored me. So I gave her the benefit and read another. It was pretty much the same book just with different characters.

It does not surprise me she copied information like that. Unlike most historical fiction novelists, she did not foot note or otherwise site her information. In an attempt to appear "knowledgable" about the Native American culture, she stole.

I guess after writing a couple hundred books with the same story line she got desperate.

 

[bronzeage]

Has anyone seen the the Cassie Edwards thing on Smart Bitches Who Love Trashy Books ?

I was turned onto this site by a Prof doing a presentation on plagiarism.

Apparently, Cassie Edwards got a lot of her "research" from works falling under "Fair Use" laws. A lot of this "research" includes verbatim phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. It's clear plagiarism.

There's example after example of her "borrowing."

But what Signet said, I think, is far worse: Signet's Response.

Signet publishes a lot of textbooks, in addition to other stuff (such as shitty trash books). A producer of TEXTBOOKS thinks she "had done nothing wrong."

Edited to add: There's a lot of stuff on the right hand side from the home page. This isn't a single occurrence, but a pretty huge thing.

Any thoughts?

Plagiarism is always a problem for "production" writers, especially a publisher's cash cow, who has to get another title issued. A lot of it comes from research assistants, which few people want to admit using.

Alex Haley was sued for plagiarism for a passage in Roots, which was verbatim lifted from another author. When it was finally tracked down, it was found an assistant interviewed a person who gave an account of slaves being freed when Union troops rode into town, as they remembered a grandmother telling the story. The only problem was, the story was from a book they read, not a Grandmother.