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Publishers Say 'Fact-Checking Too Costly'

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the time-to-write-my-memoirs dept.

Mr. Ghost writes "Members of the book publishing industry say that profit margins are too small to fact check "non-fiction" books. Instead they rely on the "honesty" of the authors submitting the book. This has come to a head with the revelation from the author of "Million Little Pieces" that he lied about the accounts in his memoirs."

2 of 403 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wait a minute, this is Slashdot by interiot · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Congressional Aides Found Scribbling "douche!" In a Drug-Rehabilitation Novel ?

  2. Re:and the news is what exactly? by nagora · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Anybody who thinks that a published book or newspaper is any more reliable than Wikipedia must be blind.

    Except, of course, if I check something in a newspaper and discover that it's right, I know it'll still be right tomorrow.

    TWW

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    "Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"