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Viswanathan book deal raises more questions

By David Mehegan
Globe Staff / April 29, 2006

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Hovering over the controversy around Kaavya Viswanathan's plagiarism-riddled novel is the $500,000 question: How could a publisher risk all that money on a 17-year-old who had only a bare concept and had never written a book? (Full article: 1080 words)

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