By John Gruber
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Waldo Jaquith, at The Virginia Quarterly Review:
In the course of reading Chris Anderson’s new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (Hyperion, $26.99), for a review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. These instances were identified after a cursory investigation, after I checked by hand several dozen suspect passages in the whole of the 274-page book.
Jaquith includes half a dozen incriminating examples. Plagiarism is a strong word, but there’s no other way to describe some of these passages.
Anderson has responded, acknowledging it as a “screwup”, on his Long Tail weblog.
★ Wednesday, 1 July 2009