Book deals are getting more like Hollywood film deals, says nicholas clee
THE STORY SO FAR: On Tuesday, The First Post reported how a student 'chick-lit' novelist was being accused of plagiarising two books by another American writer. Later the same day, her publisher announced that future editions of the novel would be rewritten to remove some passages...
The news that Kaavya Viswanathan has agreed to amend future editions of her first novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life may have aroused delicious schadenfreude in cynical observers of the literary scene.
Viswanathan, now 19 and a student at Harvard, received an advance of $500,000 for this and a
