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...

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[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.