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This is from the Guardian in the UK:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/19/usa3
A U.S. publisher ran a Craigslist ad looking for fourteen people to sign books for a big name best-selling author. They'll get $25 for every 200 books they sign. I guess this is one of those cases where thousands of copies of the books are signed for some kind of promotion -- but the author wasn't about to sign that many books.
According to the article, "The advert says the fake signing, to be held in Los Angeles, will run over two days at eight hours a day. Each signing will take 15 seconds or less, and at that rate the team of 14 could sign up to 53,760 copies." Does this mean that they will be doing this all at the same
time in some warehouse or office? How bizarre!
So what do you think of this? Is this going to far? Or has this become common for big name authors (and after all, some of the biggest names are using ghostwriters)? What could this do to book collecting? Many people will pay more money for a signed book (depending on the author of course). But now, how do you know the author really signed it? Or is it worth less money if you got it through a publisher offer instead of getting it signed at a booksigning? I've seen signed copies of books that come directly from the publisher -- I got a signed Elmore Leonard that way once, plus a signed Stephen R. Donaldson book. But how do I really know they signed it? (Then again, they weren't signing tens of thousands of copies, just a few hundred I think.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/19/usa3
A U.S. publisher ran a Craigslist ad looking for fourteen people to sign books for a big name best-selling author. They'll get $25 for every 200 books they sign. I guess this is one of those cases where thousands of copies of the books are signed for some kind of promotion -- but the author wasn't about to sign that many books.
According to the article, "The advert says the fake signing, to be held in Los Angeles, will run over two days at eight hours a day. Each signing will take 15 seconds or less, and at that rate the team of 14 could sign up to 53,760 copies." Does this mean that they will be doing this all at the same
time in some warehouse or office? How bizarre!
So what do you think of this? Is this going to far? Or has this become common for big name authors (and after all, some of the biggest names are using ghostwriters
)? What could this do to book collecting? Many people will pay more money for a signed book (depending on the author of course). But now, how do you know the author really signed it? Or is it worth less money if you got it through a publisher offer instead of getting it signed at a booksigning? I've seen signed copies of books that come directly from the publisher -- I got a signed Elmore Leonard that way once, plus a signed Stephen R. Donaldson book. But how do I really know they signed it? (Then again, they weren't signing tens of thousands of copies, just a few hundred I think.)
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