Rejecting Jane Austen

[mcroft]

Not a bad little stunt. Some guy submitted the first three chapters of Pride And Prejudice to major publishers, and most of them didn't recognize it.

I'm not 100% convinced that the ones that didn't respond at all actually read it, but the guy is assuming that they didn't notice because they didn't comment.

I bet he could get it published by Publish America...

Comments

[kadath.livejournal.com]

When this first happened, nihilistic_kid, who is a professional writer and editor, mentioned that people pull stunts like this all the time, to "prove" the publishing industry doesn't know what it's doing. He says editors ignore it because responding to it only encourages people.

[drelmo.livejournal.com]

ISTR that the Nielsen Hayden coalition also said that they get plagiarized stuff all the time, and they discard it silently.

That is, I got the impression that they thought much of the copied material was copied for plagiaristic purposes rather than to "prove" something about the publishing industry.