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1. Publisher to hire people to fake sign bestseller’s autograph?


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Photo: Cheryl Rainfield



Now this is interesting. I don’t know whether or not it’s true, but according to The Guardian, via Gawker, a big publisher put an ad in Craiglist to hire 14 people to fake the autograph of two co-authors for a best-selling novel, with the workers to be paid $25 for every 200 books they sign.

The ad says that the fake signing will take 8 hours a day for 2 days in Los Angeles, and that each signing will take 15 seconds or less. At that rate the 14 people could sign up to 53,760 copies.

Why hire fake signers? Because the authors don’t want to sign all those books? Granted, those are a LOT of books, but I’d love to have that kind of “problem”!

And what about the people who are purchasing signed copies? I assume they’re buying an autographed copy because they want something that came directly from the author. Isn’t that…cheating them? What do you think?

You can see the ad on Gawker.

Thanks to Shelf Awareness for the link.

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