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Apr25
How to Plagiarize and Still Make a Bundle
Kaavya Viswanathan wrote an apparently fabulous book and was signed to a $500,000 two book deal.  The Harvard sophmore wrote How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life (currently #32 on the NY Times Bestseller list and optioned by Dreamworks).  The problem is that the book contains similar text to Megan McCafferty’s 2001 novel Sloppy Firsts and her 2003 follow-up Second Helpings.  Similar as in one case lifting a 14 word sentence wholly from McCafferty's work. 

Kaavya's response "Wow, must have internalized McCafferty's work."



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