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May 16

On Harlan Ellison and the Plagiarism of Ideas

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Marta: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease…. Garth: “You wrote that?” Marta: “Yesterday, as a matter of fact.” Garth: “It was written by an Earth man named Shakespeare a long time ago!” Marta: “Which …

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May 10

How the Publishing Houses Are Self-Destructing

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I don’t expect the big publishing houses to disappear from the face of the earth anytime soon.  People will still want their coffee table books.  Textbooks are still required by colleges, and the industry is still trying to squash the used textbook market by coming out with new editions having trivial changes every year or …

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