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| Alleged Plagiarism In Chris Anderson's New Book |
| from the hyperlinks-don't-stick-to-dead-trees dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Wednesday June 24, @12:27 (Books) |
| http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/24/1528204 |
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[0]ScorpFromHell writes "Blogger Waldo Jaquith alleges in his blog that
Chris Anderson, Wired magazine's editor-in-chief and writer of The Long
Tail, has apparently [1]plagiarized content from various sources without
attribution for his soon-to-be-published book. 'In the course of reading
Chris Anderson's new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, for a
review in an upcoming issue of VQR, we have discovered almost a dozen
passages that are reproduced nearly verbatim from uncredited sources. ...
Most of the passages, but not all, come from Wikipedia.' When questioned
about the similar passages, Anderson responded, "All those are my
screwups after we decided not to run notes as planned, due to my
inability to find a good citation format for web sources... As you'll
note, these are mostly on the margins of the book's focus, mostly on
historical asides, but that's no excuse. I should have had a better
process to make sure the write-through covered all the text that was not
directly sourced. I think what we'll do is publish those notes after all,
online as they should have been to begin with.'"

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1. http://www.vqronline.org/blog/2009/06/23/chris-anderson-free/