Writer accuses Twilight author of plagiarism
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This article was published 09/08/2009 (6258 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
U.S. author Stephenie Meyer has been accused of plagiarism.
She is accused of plagiarism in Breaking Dawn, the fourth novel in her incredibly popular teen vampire Twilight series.
U.S. writer and singer Jordan Scott has claimed that Meyer’s work plagiarizes The Nocturne, which she published in 2006.
Some similarities between the works include an after-wedding beach sex scene and an unborn child with magical powers.
According to Meyer’s lawyers, the claim is “frivolous.”
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Small literary and cultural magazines in Canada are about to be hard hit by changes to the new Canada Periodical Fund.
Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore has announced that magazines with circulations of less than 5,000 will no longer be supported by the fund.
The changes to the fund were originally announced in February and resulted in grassroots protests across Canada.
According to managing editor Rosalynn Tyo of The New Quarterly magazine, the changes will be devastating.
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Toronto thriller writer Linwood Barclay’s Too Close to Home has reached the top of the U.K. bestseller list.
During the last week of July alone, the work sold more than 45,000 copies.
Barclay’s work is a followup to his 2008’s No Time for Goodbye, which was the bestselling paperback in 2008 for the U.K. More than 636,000 copies were sold.
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Canada’s Indigo Books & Music has had its earnings drop by $2.3 million in the first quarter of 2009.
Leading the drop was a loss of 9.1 per cent in online sales.
In total, sales dropped from $21 million to $19.1 million.
According to a press release from Indigo, the online sales drop was due to the “elimination of certain non-profitable businesses.”
Despite the drop, the total revenue for the quarter still exceeded $193 million.
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Due to online protests, Bloomsbury Children’s Books has decided to change the cover of Australian author Justine Larbalestier’s Liar.
The young adult work is about an African-American girl with “nappy” hair. However Bloomsbury originally designed a cover featuring a white girl with straight hair.
Protests by Larbalestier and others about the racism of the changes quickly spread across the Internet. Last week the publisher announced it would be making the changes before publication in October.
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