Sunday, March 24, 2013
Jane Goodall's New Book
I can't believe someone as experienced as Jane Goodall would mess up like this, or that she's 78 years old. I don't know wether to blame the editor, her, or the publishers. I would think that a professional book like this would go through a series of edits and they'd probably catch it, but apparently not. She also had a coauthor so you'd think that one of them was bound to catch it or remember to site the information. I wonder if she did it on purpose, but wether she purposely plagiarized or not she still did it. From what i've learned in high school plagiarizing is a serious thing and comes with harsh punishments, and this is just high school! What she did is serious. She probably has to pay a bunch of fines, but I don't think she'll have to go to jail or anything. She IS a 78 year old lady. The authors and publishers already apologized, and said they were going to fix new issues of the book. Wow this is so troublesome. I'm in yearbook and whenever there's a problem it's like Panic Mode Activated. I think they should apologize in person to the original sources that they stole from and not through email, fix the book, and make the apology extremely public like at a press conference or something. I've never been in this position so I don't know how anyone feels, but I think that would be appropriate.
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Sarah, I like that you bring your personal experiences in publishing to considering how to handle this situation.
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