{"id":396,"date":"2006-04-28T18:11:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T23:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=396"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:28:29","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:28:29","slug":"packager-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/packager-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Package &#8216;er up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booksquare.com\/archives\/2006\/04\/28\/1935\/\">Booksquare has a post up<\/a> about the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism scandal that raises the question behind the question:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It also makes one wonder why in the world a business like Little, Brown would spend a reported $500,000 on an unwritten book by a first-time author who was starting her academic career at a famously tough university.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For a possible answer, Booksquare links to this piece at <em>Publisher&#8217;s Weekly<\/em> that suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37pcXdT\"><em>How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild and Got a Life<\/em><\/a> was purchased not as a novel, but as a product: an attractive author with an interesting backstory, matched up with a &#8220;test-marketed, packaged&#8221; story.<\/p>\n<p>Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>Update: <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/the-scandal-that-keeps-on-scandaling\/\">the story gets worse&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Booksquare has a post up about the Kaavya Viswanathan plagiarism scandal that raises the question behind the question: It also makes one wonder why in the world a business like Little, Brown would spend a reported $500,000 on an unwritten &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/packager-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[1013,1012,1010,1011,241],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-book-packagers","tag-book-publishing","tag-kaavya-viswanathan","tag-plagiarism-scandal","tag-writing-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}